Sisi 思思

/Superposed Tongue/ “Have a nice day” “To go or for here?” “Alsjeblieft, dankjewel” “お疲れさまです” By bringing the multilingual phrases I repeat daily at the horeca workplace into the gallery space, I aim to visualize the gradual osmosis of spaces, where linguistic boundaries and fixed identities soften. The incense functions as a ritual gesture, activating this overlap of environments. As the phrases burn, their residue is transferred onto the rice I eat and serve both at work and at home. The marks left on the rice persist as a lingering exhaust, slowly permeating the languages, spaces, and food that sustain my body, until speech, place, and nourishment begin to merge across work and home. Shown in the group show “Double Shifts” @bradwolffprojects Thank you @a_breaking_bread for curating this meaningful show ❤️

Collective Compass: Mapping shared paths in and beyond the Zoekjaar II This day event is designed to collectively navigate the process of the Zoekjaar as non-EU artists and designers in the Netherlands. We want to create a space for sharing, caring, and co-surviving this “year of search” after graduation, to actively discuss visas on open ground. Program: <11:00 – 12:00> Talks by Ziyue (Joanna) Lu and Millonaliu: Sharing research and experiences regarding the layers of the search year, visa issues, and the nuances of integration. <13:00 – 15:30> Workshop hosted by SiSi Zhang, with support from Jingge Qu, to navigate the practical and emotional landscapes of the Zoekjaar. <16:00 – 18:00> Performance + Screening: A letter unfolding reading performance by Fileona Dkhar, followed by a screening of the documentary Zoekjaar - A Year of Searching by Biyi Zhu. This program is initiated by @zzsisizz & @bitsray , with the assistance of @qu_jingge Graphic Design by @nicole0hong 🗓️ March 7, 2026 📍 @redspaceamsterdam in @droogamsterdam Staalstraat 7B, Amsterdam Tickets available via the link in bio @zzsisizz

We’re excited to announce 𝗦𝗶𝘀𝗶 𝗭𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴 @zzsisizz as one of the selected artists for 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘴, through Breaking Bread’s open call. Below is her double-sided biography, as an artist and as a onigiri maker: SiSi is a multi-disciplinary designer/artist based in the Netherlands, working across objects, installation, and performance. With a keen focus on gender politics and diaspora identities, she reimagines reality and speculates on futures through the recontextualization of divination, rituals, and folklore. She crafts narrative-driven objects to convey ideas through immersive experiences, negotiating the tension between ephemeral and enduring emotional landscapes through the play of materiality. ——— ⏱️ 5 hours/day, 3 days/week, sometimes 8 hours/day, 5 days/week 💰 15 €/hour 👤Onigiri maker As a creative practitioner navigating visa restrictions, this job is my primary source of income. I rarely allow myself downtime, as I must juggle this labor with chasing open calls, writing funding applications, and organizing exhibitions after hours. On one level, I view the process of making onigiri as a necessary pause from the cerebral demand of writing applications and enjoy the almost meditative sensory connection to the food in my hands. However, as a Chinese individual integrating into a Japanese-speaking workplace in the Netherlands where I have lost my linguistic literacy, I also face a ”double expat“ reality. My own clumsiness in speaking Japanese compounds the awkwardness I feel regarding the Dutch customers‘ unfiltered fascination with Japanese culture. I can see that I’m wearing a different identity in food business. I’m less critical, less literate, less emotional. This is an identity I put on for survival. —— 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 @a_breaking_bread is a community-driven art & food platform reflecting on migration, health and creative survival — initiated by @augustina.cai & @yawenfu123 . Follow 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 to stay updated on the exhibition and public programmes. Graphic design: @wuguanyan

年初的时候在一次旅行中摸索着通过了标记着“人生再造”的洞穴，这一年的种种仿佛就在冥冥之中定下了基调。昨天无意间读到楞严经里的一句话“当知虚空，生汝心内，犹如片云点太清里。”很适合作为这一年心境上转变的收束和新的一年的铺陈。 At the beginning of the year, I did a reading for 2025 and I thought “oh damn it can be hard.” During some of the most difficult moments, I kept returning to it, especially when I felt I couldn’t run away from destiny. It was through those moments that I began to develop my own strategies to negotiate with the parts of me I hadn’t dared to face. Then I realized that reading is just a tool, but you can transcend it and read your own year on your own way. On the last day of 2025, I think I can finally conclude that it was a good year overall. I love myself and it is the same love that I share with you ❤️

*\ Navigating the Zoekjaar Landscape /* A recap of the workshop I hosted during the Zoekjaar event we did @availableandtherat on Nov.18 Navigating the search year as artist/designer can feel isolated and overwhelming. It was a cute and warm experience to negotiate as your ‘tour guide’ and to walk through the ‘search year map’ together. ⚓️ We are brewing a new edition of the Zoekjaar event in Amsterdam early March 2026 so stay tuned! Photos by @qu_jingge

<a haunted map> *+details *+performance *+burning incense Photos by @awwyw___ @leidykarinagomezmontoya

<a haunted map> 🐌 Installation, incense, performative reading of a ghost story 🐌 A Haunted Map is a project I showed at bOre that investigates the ontological fracture of an identity through the recontextualization of the Chinese mystery snail (田螺). In its original cultural framework, the snail is an animistic and fluid entity. Transplanted to the Netherlands, it is stripped of these signifiers and redefined as a purely biological, invasive object. A chain forged from incense embodies the snail’s spiritual attempt to cross boundaries. As a ritualistic medium, it renders the suppressed cultural identity momentarily legible. This work questions how “invasiveness” is constructed while other realities are actively ignored. Pic by @awwyw___ @hsuuusc

Visit our bOring exhibition! bOre showcases works revolving around the theme of bOring, both as a verb and an adjective. Find us @united.cowboys during @dutchdesignweek . DDW October 18.–26. 11:00–18:00 United Cowboys Kleine Berg 62 Eindhoven bOring Works:  Jennifer Carniel @janyfrrrcrnl Arnold Giovarn @arnold_giovarn Natafelen @natafelen.collective (Alice Wan @ecila_wan , Mira Ying @mira.n.ying & Seewhy Ng @seewhy_ngchoyiu ) Sisi Zhang @zzsisizz Pauline Bernichan @pauline.bernichan Guoda Šulskytė @guodasul & Alfredo Ramírez @aaaaaaaaaaaaaaalf Shao-Chun Hsu @hsuuusc Scinema @_scinema_ Hanchen Zhang @hanczhang Hyejin Jung @mwhjung Eleni Vrettakou @elenivrett & Leidy Karina Gómez Montoya @leidykarinagomezmontoya Kexin Hong @nicole0hong bOring Host: @ddduan.link bOring Curation & Organisation: Alice Wan, Sisi Zhang, Shao-Chun Hsu, Scinema (Leidy Karina Gómez Montoya & Tonda Budszus) & Hanchen Zhang  bOring Visual Identity: @tondabdszs

<Distance Nearby> Had the opportunity to show my work with a performed guided meditation at @oscamonline with murmur last month. It asks, when a home altar no longer houses a deity or ancestor, do its offerings and wishes still reach their destination when the receiver is absent? The meditation is both a continual exploration of this question, and an imaginational act to bridge distance towards home.

<Distance Nearby> An object accompanied with a performed guided meditation, exhibited at @oscamonline with murmur last month. **When a home altar no longer houses a deity or ancestor, do its offerings and wishes still reach their destination when the receiver is absent? **In the context of intergenerational diaspora, the idea of home instead of a place one can return to, becomes something that can only be imagined through symbolic portals and paths towards home. This work reflects on how “home” persists as a feeling rather than a location, and how ritualistic acts become attempts to bridge symbolic distance.

Life updates. End of December is about happiness. Not new year yet but already feel like reflecting the past twelve months. Fileona asked me what’s a word I would use to describe 2023 and I said revealing. Revealing is also about discovering and re-realizing so is nice in general, a bit scary too but it’s good I guess 🫡.

Recently is a time of turmoil and I feel like even if I knew how to swim, there’s still constant risk of drowning. Every little thing seems to be bigger than they appear. Thankfully I’ve got people to hold onto along this shaky path that makes the anxiety less suffocating. Checked the calendar just now and maybe it is the right time to share this gratitude on the right day. Happy Thanksgiving 🙏