ones of the subject (In what sense do the breast of the subject carry meaning)? The concept of the subject itself is originated from the dualistic relationship of gender. So, how shall we look at these breasts?
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF GENDER
Even a body with female characteristics would not possess all the common features still. What, after all, is the so-called body, as it is commonly seen? How can a body be the subject of narration? Body functions both as the “donor” and the “donee.” Both the donor, the subject of narration, and the donee, the seen, can simultaneously belong to this same body. Which one is familiar to you? Would gender still exist in the narration of the subject?
MIRROR
There are so many ways to look, just like there are so many mirrors, and so many reflections. Within the languages of a body, it is the channel, through which we look, that renders us lookers. In the roles of lookers, however, who is the subject? How has such a substitution of lookers for the subject been subtly managed? Perhaps in the mirrors, we can see the boundary of norms more clearly, and see the body as norms; in the mirrors, one would learn to deal with the norms, using one’s own construction.
When we look at a body, when we shape a body, whose eyes is it that we are looking with? At such a moment, is the body taken up by the subject, or is it rendered the object as it is looked at? Body is normalized. Gender, from certain points of views, is a kind of norm. It normalizes women as woman, men as man.
BODY AS SCULPTURE AND SCULPTURE AS BODY
When I decided to re-photograph my works from the past, some of them, due to the distance in time and space, have more or less shown signs of estrangement. The relationship between an artwork and its environment has always been appealing to me, but this time I did not touch on that in photographs, as I wish to compose a group of pictures that are relatively more abstract.
Being surveyed anew, the features of body are