In Love

In this dualchannel video two separate scenes of the artist with a parent are juxtaposed Chang faces her mother and in the adjacent frame appears facetoface with her father Simultaneously both images show the artists and respective parents faces pressed together in what at first appears to be a deep kiss Gradually it becomes evident that the video is running in reverse time and that they share not a kiss but rather an onion from which they both eat They bite into it slowly pausing as they take turns offering it to each other as if it suggests the proverbial forbidden fruit Parent and child swallow before they take additional bites blinking hard to hold back tears from the onions sharpness and pungency However in the videos reversal of time the onion is reconstituted and the tears disappearwholeness is thus regained