Yellow, White, Black
Size: 297x210mm
Materials: Photography, Giclée print, Stickers
Year of work: 2025
Description:
Yellow, White, Black is a grid of 24 photographs of women’s backs—minimal, restrained, and almost identical at first glance. But slowly, distinctions emerge. Twenty of the women are East Asian, two are white, two are Black. The figure repeats, but difference insists.
Shot from behind, the work denies viewers access to the face, stripping identity down to posture, bone, and skin. The gaze is forced into ambiguity: Who is this body? Where do you place her? What are you looking for?
By removing facial cues and presenting the body in near-identical poses, the work interrogates how race, gender, and anonymity intersect under systems of visual consumption. Repetition here is not only a formal device—it becomes a question of surveillance, of categorization, of the viewer’s own desire to decode and define.
Referencing Nietzsche’s eternal return, Yellow, White, Black asks: what happens when a body must be seen again and again, always the same, yet never quite the same? What does it mean to be watched repeatedly—but never truly seen?