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WEN Hsin
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After the breast removal surgery, I always feel confused about my gender identity. I am socially defined as a woman because of some external symbols. However, if I am deprived of these feminine symbols, do I become a man instead? The society has always categorized people into men and women, and our understanding of the world is completely based on such a division. I use the knowledge to photograph other people, dressing men like women. In the process of photographing, I got to know them again while I also got to know myself again. Both the photographed and the photographer return to oneself to explore the idea of subjectivity.

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Video Art
As long as I can remember, I`ve always attempted presenting the symbol of body through the print media and pursuing the very first feeling or perception of a “body of system-free.” Then in the process of creating I became to realize that we all ar ...
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KEYWORDS
WEN Hsin, 2013, Video Art
WEN Hsin, 2012, Photographic Art