An ancestral tablet box is traditionally a wooden box laid on
ritual tables to enshrine the names of one’s ancestors. In House
of Tiktok, these names are replaced by metronomes. The artist
collaborated with a traditional artisan who built the roof and
base of the work, constructing the internal structure herself.
The work addresses dual temporalities: ancestral rituals follow
a cyclical, ritualistic time that returns year after year, while the
metronome represents mechanical time that is precisely divided
and repeated, an embodiment of the capitalist and linear time we
have inhabited since industrialization.

By inserting industrial time within a traditional vessel of ritual, a
space once dedicated to honoring ancestors is transformed into
one that measures rhythm. While the work’s form adheres to the
vessels of ancestral rites (jesa), its contents shift from names to
time itself. Through this superimposition of traditional objects
and mechanical elements, a familiar ritual tool resonates with the
rhythm of contemporary life in unexpected ways.