THE BODY AS EVIDENCE
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Photographer Juan Chen (
@ju4nchen ) and curator and cofounder of the platform Moco Chen (
@creepymoco ) begin from a tension between the body, the image, and the act of being seen.
John Berger suggested that seeing is never a neutral act.
The way we perceive the world is shaped by culture, power, desire, and the media through which images circulate. In contemporary visual culture, seeing is no longer simply an act of looking. It has become a mechanism through which reality is reconstructed.
Spiritual alienation has never looked so familiar. When a person is continuously subjected to the gaze, aesthetic judgment, and commodification, their inner self begins to be recoded by an external image system. The viewer believes they are looking at a person. What they are actually seeing is a post-human surface; shaped collectively by media, desire, fashion, and us.
A photography project about the cost of being looked at and what survives the image.
CO-CREATIVE DIRECTOR & PHOTOGRAPHER:
@ju4nchen
CO-CREATIVE DIRECTOR & MODEL:
@creepymoco
FASHION:
@iris.yang329 @_nocturnekey_
MAKEUP ARTIST:
@jenniferk_make_up
HAIR STYLIST:
@mika__hair_stylist @mika__hair 
