My practice can be summarised in the three words: body as reality. Carnal, raw, sometimes visceral, I use the camera to convey what it means to be a human, specifically through the lens of womanhood. With colour and concept, my work is often intense. However, I do not believe that I create intensity. Instead, I believe that I create a space to play with and better understand intensity – highlighting the pain and power of what it means to be a woman by bringing focus to the experience of the body. My photographs attempt to capture the external appearance of an internal experience, confronting the viewer both with their perceptions of the body they see and the relationship they have with the body they inhabit. I am not afraid to disturb or excite the viewer, as that communication (body directly to body) re-establishes the idea of the body as a reality with its own primal languages.
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Dancing in the Red Room, 2023
Dance is one of the rawest forms of bodily expression. Dancing in the Red Room aims to celebrate the female body by externally capturing the power of the internal experience of dance. A triumph of movement and form, this series champions the beauty in frenzy, passion, and figure.
[Digital Photography]
Dancing in the Red Room, 2023
[35mm Film Photography]
Dancing in the Red Room, 2023
[35mm Film Photography]
Bondage Performance, 2023
A self-portraiture series of 120 images, Bondage Performance involved me wrapping (and unwrapping and re-wrapping) my body with bondage tape while focusing on the bodily sensation of the action itself. Frustrated as the bondage tape refused to stick to me during the second wrapping, I began contemplating the absurdity of the piece: someone desperately trying to bind themselves and fighting through the physical inability to do so. I was not bound and determined to be free, I was free and determined to be bound.
[Photographically assisted by Georgia Stead]
[Digital Photography]
Nude [The Object], 2022-23
Hand stuffed, dyed, sewn, and painted, Nude was created from a frantic need to engage with a tactile art-making process. Each piece was sewn together to birth an organ-like soft sculpture that attempts to display an atypical beauty in the corruption of the body.
[Dyed, painted, sewn cotton and felt fabric, stuffing]
Nude, 2023
[Photographically assisted by You Liang Hou]
[35mm Film Photography]
