Gender: Not Defined Series 3 《性别：不详》系列3

      联合国发展署（UNDP)2009年发表报告估计：“亚洲每年约有9600万名女性因遭杀害、堕胎、疏于照顾从这个世界上“消失”，该数字似乎还以绝对值在不断上升。“ 生命的绝对生命权利，来源于对生命尊严的敬畏。《世界伦理宣言》规定四项伦理底线：”不许杀人，不许欺骗，不许奸淫，不许偷盗。“ 然而传统观念依然变相剥夺人们的生命，尤其是女性的生命。

      作品《性别：不详》以胎儿发育过程为载体，以垂直排列及方块拜访两种方式，探讨人与生存空间的关系，生命个体在体制中生存状态的探讨，对生命选择、生命尊严、性别在生命选择过程中的影响等问题的思考。“体制、制度、观念”即像这作品中的玻璃器皿一样，虽然透明看不见，却有着不可逆行的社会“游戏规则”。

2010 Mixed materials 200x300x250cm

Gender: Not Defined is a sculpture series reflecting on gender injustice and the impact of patriarchal ideology on reproductive decisions. Each work represents a fetus at a stage before gender is biologically distinguishable—evoking a moment of potentiality before cultural, political, and familial ideologies assign value based on sex.

The project was inspired by a 2009 UNDP report estimating that nearly 9.6 million women die annually due to sex-selective abortion, neglect, and lack of medical care—a phenomenon particularly prevalent in parts of Asia, including China and India. These deaths are not incidental but a systemic result of cultural biases that devalue female lives from the moment of conception.

Each sculpture features a fetus encased in a transparent glass cube. The cube represents not only the womb but the invisible and unbreakable structures of social conditioning: traditions, gendered expectations, family pressure, and state control. While glass suggests clarity and neutrality, it also imprisons—symbolizing the rigidity of ideology disguised as transparency.

The series was developed while the artist navigated the complexities of gender norms, authoritarian censorship, and self-exile. In China, where disclosing fetal sex to expecting mothers is illegal to prevent gender-selective abortions, gendered power imbalances still dictate life-or-death decisions. These works question how deeply technology, policy, and ideology intervene in personal lives—shaping who is allowed to be born.

Gender: Not Defined critiques not only gender inequality but the techno-political systems that reinforce it. It confronts the audience with a stark question: What does it mean to kill an unborn child simply because she is female?