Mother’s Waves
Digital wall paper, dimension variable
2025
Mother’s Waves is a digital wall installation inside The Museum of Lost Heirs (VOID_Melbourne, March 2026). This wall paper echoes the unclaimed inheritance of language and tradition within diasporic communities, using artist Sarah Goffman’s practice of relentless reproduction Hokusai’s iconic The Great Wave off Kanagawa to conjure a sense of lost mother’s touch. Utilizing AI trained on this conceptual framework, the wall paper engages the intimate act of reading in an immigrant’s mother tongue, it invites a personal reckoning with loss and heritage, fostering moments of quiet wonder and discovery amidst the fractures of displacement experience by immigrants who have come to see Australia as motherland.
Messages to Lost Heirs
Participatory story telling, dimension variable
2024
Walk further into the Museum of Lost Heir, visitors will encounter a participatory storytelling wall installation Messages to Lost Heirs that explores real and imagined cases of unclaimed inheritance. Each image is paired with a message from a deceased, translated into different language to reflect diverse expressions of love, loss, and longing. Developed during a 2024 residency in Kyoto RPS Gallery working in close collaboration with curator Yumi Goto, the project has progressed and now responds to Melbourne’s layered history—as a city shaped by those who’ve arrived in waves of migration, and those who’ve left, leaving memories behind. Using prototypes of working in multiple sites, Wei Weng continues to challenge the framework in which unclaimed inheritance may be experienced by viewers.