The Eggshell Repair Project
workshop kit developed in collaboration with Zapzat Studio during He Xiangning Museum artist residency, Shenzhen 2025
artist installation and workshop documentation, exhibition Through His/Her/Its Vision, Huamao Museum, Ningbo, June 2026
2026年 宁波华茂美术馆《透过他她它的视界：海外华人艺术回顾展》
The Eggshell Repair Project - workshop edition
Concept: Wei Weng, 2025
Visual and product design by ZAPZAT Studio, Shenzhen
Each workshop box contains a mini scale toolkit, an eggshell that has been repaired using rice paper a complimentary repair booklet, and a user guide.
Reflect on your personal journey. Use the toolkit to restore fragments of memory and balance elements from your emotional life. Add symbolic “weight” to your scale to measure the “objects of focus” that resonate most deeply with you.
In an era defined by digital data flow, how do we grasp the intangible waves of migration?
Today, merely sending money home to build houses is insufficient to remedy the self-alienation wrought by post-industrial migration. Artist Wei Weng focuses on creating a moment of self-repair, achieved by confronting the fragmentation of our own emotions. The toolkit provides emotional guidance through the tactile act of balancing objects. It serves as a reminder to every migrant living far from family that a spiritual home can be built within.