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07/2024Guangzhou, China
Cardboard, printed paper, steel stick
Performance/Film
Concept initially inspired from my own experience, ‘male gaze’ gives me an uneasy and uncomfortable feeling. This may be because it sexualizes and objectifies women. It not only comes from the way they gaze but comes from the horrific experience related to the act of male that has happened to other women or themselves. As a social phenomenon, female is stereotypically considered to be more gentle and weaker than male; male is stronger and more reliable than female. Hence, women are affected by their self-esteem and self-perception; man have more social pressure. In Chinese society, we still haven’t escape this constrains. This performance is a protest for this phenomenon to be more noticable because just being there intensifies the ‘male gaze’. I want my audience to rethink what they are taught to be like and step away from the habitual perspective by seeing it as a performance or artwork.

Note: This project is not made to directly insult, criticize, or slander a specific person. It is only presenting a social phenomenon that appears in the current Chinese society and will only be used for artistic purposes.

Photographer: Ye Zi