The Fish Head at the Family Table
Ceramics · Family table · Portion · Ritual
Portfolio · 2024 — 2026
Molly Mao
Selected works · nine projects
These works begin with what is closest — a dinner table, a family portrait, a television left running, a seat that stays empty — and follow small domestic rituals into larger questions about memory, care and belonging. This site collects nine of them.
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Nine works · click a row to open
Always in the Same Place
Video · Family portrait · Seating · Order
Maybe Next Year
Collage · Festival · Return · Time
What Grows Between Us
Installation · Friendship · Conflict · Repair
The Past Remains, Yesterday Fades
Embroidery · Memory · Found object · Grandfather
The Silence That Settles In
Performance · Television · Silence · Company
A Sweet Burden
Performance · Care · Appetite · Pressure
Dinners Out of Sync
Projection · Household · Time · Distance
The Goodbye I Was Not Allowed to Say
AI images · Mourning · Absence · Family