Touch 触
Touch is a long-term ongoing project that explores my relationship with food and its contextual meaning related to my identity through photographic practice.
Food is a carrier of sensory memory. The process of being intimate with food is as complex for me as developing an intimate relationship with a human being. I visualized my personal feelings, memories, and desires in daily life when I was shopping, cooking, and dining. The images investigate the edible materials, colours, and textures: when they touch my fingertips, my palms, and my lips, they make all the difference to my mind.
This project delves into a subconscious exploration of sexual fantasy and violence from the perspective of my cultural background as an East Asian female, through expanding the contextual meaning of food and body in photographic practice.
食物，是人在日常中心态的外化。它是如此简单又如此复杂的物质，一种为了正常生活活动所必要的需求，同时也是承载了文化、历史、政治与性别意味的媒介。它在给予我愉悦与满足的同时也带给过我好奇、困惑与许多联想。这些颜色和材质都非常不同的可食用物质：荷包蛋、面包、西瓜……与指尖和唇齿相触时，使我产生的心绪都是不一样的。在与食物共处的时间中，我持续地探索着这样的心绪。和食物亲密相处的过程对我来说就像和人类发展亲密关系一样复杂。
这是一个长期的摄影项目，通过对个人经验、记忆和欲望的可视化，传递了我作为东亚女性对自身文化背景、性别、暴力与性爱的无意识探索与诠释，每一种食物都含括了不同的意图和情感。
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