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Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Photographs
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Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Photographs

Last updated: June 4, 2025 10:45 pm
Editorial Board Published June 4, 2025
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PASADENA — One fascinating factor about parenting is seeing how your kids mix your mannerisms with their publicity to the bigger group in their very own growing personalities. My five-year-old daughter loves mimicking the dance choreography of Blackpink and is rising up in a time when Ok-pop is a worldwide sensation. My preteen daughter likes to learn, and her private library is full of books by Asian-American authors telling tales that heart Asian-American women. Each women are rising up in a metropolis with the most important Korean diaspora exterior of Korea. I usually marvel how merely being uncovered to this abundance of Asian our bodies and cultural illustration — an expertise fairly completely different from my very own childhood — is influencing their rising senses of self, particularly their racial identities as combined ethnicity Asian Individuals.

my arms are monsters who imagine in magic, curated by Kris Kuramitsu on the Armory Heart for the Arts, options the work of 10 artists from the Asian diaspora. The exhibition focuses on the fragmented nature of identification and the round loop of exterior and inside suggestions concerned in self-image creation, with significantly curiosity in how expertise and media feeds into this course of. 

This concept is modeled in Miraj Patel’s set up “Indexing” (2025). Right here, a smartphone flashlight shines mild by way of a portrait of the artist onto a British photographer’s colonial-period picture of an Indian man, leading to a hybrid through which the artist’s picture is projected onto the colonizer’s abstracting gaze. 

Miraj Patel, “Indexing” (2025), cellphone, c-stand, plexiglass, plywood, photographic prints

Amia Yokoyama’s set up “Wyrm Theory” (2025) equally displays this course of: fragmented movies of physique components and stop-motion-animated clay varieties projected onto an online of porcelain discs and metal wire converse to how the boundaries between the self, the skin world, and the media we devour can turn into blurred. This makes it tough to determine the distinction between private desire and the internalization of others’ narratives. The narrator in Diane Severin Nguyen’s video “If Revolution is a Sickness,” which loosely tells the story of a Vietnamese woman in Poland becoming a member of a Ok-pop-inspired dance group, sums this rigidity up succinctly by asking: “Once I memorize their words, will I lose my voice? Is it true that only a photograph can see inside?” Later within the movie she declares: “I must appear to myself as I wish to appear to others.”

In Jarod Lew’s {photograph} “Blending in Orange” (2024), a presumably Asian determine sporting an orange shirt sits in a row of orange benches. In an effort to mix in with the seating, the particular person has obscured their face with an orange balaclava, which anonymizes and generalizes them. Notably, the opposite figures within the scene (additionally presumably Asian) are all wearing shades of black and grey, with out their faces obscured. It’s as if the artist is saying that assimilation into one group essentially requires each dissimilating from one other group and a disintegration of self. The determine in orange stares again at us, asserting their company on this efficiency of each assimilation and self-obliteration.

Maybe in the long run the one genuine Asian-American identification is private and individualized. In different phrases, we will solely actually mix in with our selves. The paradox is that this particular person authenticity can solely be envisioned and visual within the context of and in response to others — our household and our communities, and thru the representations and narratives we devour.

Amia Yokoyama Wyrm Theory

Amia Yokoyama, “Wyrm Theory” (2025), porcelain discs, mirror, video projection, metal wire, aluminum crimpsGuanyu Xu Worlds within Worlds

Guanyu Xu 徐冠宇, “Worlds within Worlds” (2019), archival pigment printLeonard Suryajaya Press Conference

Set up view of Leonard Suryajaya, “Press Conference” (2023), archival pigment printTommy Kha installation view

Set up view of pictures by Tommy KhaMaggie Lee Daughter

Set up view of Maggie Lee, “Daughter” (2016), shade, sound 4:27 minutesAlex Anderson I like your ring

Alex Anderson, “I like your ring. Can I have it?” (2023), earthenware, glaze, gold lusterCathy Lu Peach with Hair

Cathy C. Lu, “Peach with Hair” (2022), stoneware, glaze, gold luster, artificial hairDiane Severin Nguyen If Revolution is a Sickness author and daughter watching

The creator and his daughter watching Diane Severin Nguyen’s “If Revolution Is a Sickness” (2021), 4k video: shade and sound, 18:53 minutes (picture Elizabeth Tien)

my arms are monsters who imagine in magic continues on the Armory Heart for the Arts (145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, California) by way of December 14. The exhibition was curated by Kris Kuramitsu.

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