Faces of Sadness is a series of artwork, including installations and videos, discussing the cultural, historical and geo-political identity of Taiwanese people. 
The question of how to define, to identify as and to distinguish a Taiwanese are raised mainly through the reframing the faces and reconstructing scenes from Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s 1989 film, “A City of Sadness”, which depicts the “February 28 incident” happened in 1947.
It is a meditation on faces, which human recognizes easily. Could people look into the faces and discover clues which help determine the qualities of a Taiwanese. Moreover, could people project themselves as a Taiwanese regardless of their identities? Like looking into a mirror, which face do you see in the end, and how does it look like?
In the works, three different time periods are juxtaposed, searching the definition of being a Taiwanese along respective eras and contexts. While comparing the constant shifting identity classification and browsing through the fragmented representations of people in Taiwan, the artist strives to come up with a final answer to respond to the question asked in the film: “Where are you from? Where are you going?” as a self-identified Taiwanese.