"Looking at the Altar" is an ancestor altar-like installation assembled from found materials and family archives with different cultural symbols. The project is rooted in exploring identity rights through family memory, naming, and cultural inheritance, using name cards as the main media object. The vision comes from revisiting my family’s migration history and understanding how rights, especially the right to one’s name, heritage, and cultural continuity, shape identity across generations.

The materials used in this project hold cultural and symbolic value, showing how identity can persist even when culture becomes hidden due to political pressure. This approach also aligns with the works of artists I have researched, such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Tracey Emin, who use simple materials and personal stories to speak about larger political histories. Their practices helped me understand how vulnerability, loss, and intimate memory can become a language for discussing rights.