The Hotel Yin-Ju Chen

Yin-Ju Chen

Through arrangement of visual and tactile materials and collaboration with other scoliotic individuals

These hidden in the strange corner of the landscape became my prey

Where the fuck are you taking us

history of self-inflicted harm

The Hotel Yin-Ju ChenThe hotel in this book is both real and metaphorical, an actual establishment run by Tenzing Dakpas parents in Sikkim, Northeast India, and a prism through which he revisits his family history and place within it. Dakpas photos reveal the physical spaces of the hotel, its guest rooms, dining room, the familys cat on a flight of stairs; as well as signs of daily working life there: sheets hanging out to dry, clipping plants in the garden, his parents