THE BODY AS EVIDENCE

YANGRUNG CHEN: As creators, do we want people to see a sense of resonance, or the experiences and worldviews that emerge from our work? And where should these images lead?

JUAN CHEN: I focus on expression only. It doesn’t necessarily need resonance. The endpoint of an image is whether, after each act of expression, it brings me closer to myself.

In Ways of Seeing, John Berger suggests that seeing is never a neutral act; the way we see the world is always shaped by culture, power, desire, and the media through which images circulate.

Contemporary seeing is not simply an act of looking, but a mechanism that reconstructs reality. Images no longer merely record the human subject; they begin to produce and reshape it.

In front of the camera, the person gradually learns how to become an image, how to satisfy the expectations of the viewer, and how to transform themselves into something more elevated, more hollow, and more plasticised.