things happen where you don’t look
single channel colour digital video, sound. 6min. 2024In the intimate confines of a cluttered room, a blurry figure, Ishi Flatland, dances around the elegant furniture and decor, running after the camera lens. Acting as a guide for attention, the camera lens becomes a predator, exploiting the figure's desperate desire to be acknowledged while callously choosing to overlook.
Playing with Yabin’s drag character (which originally grew out of a decolonising drag workshop held by Queer China UK), this visual narrative illuminates the pervasive neglect and biassed distribution of attention that have come to define our consumerist capitalist society, entwined with the existence and condition of queer bodies in mainstream depiction.
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shown at:
Canal Dream Art Festival. 9–16 August 2024. LondonFox Yard Studio Summer Exhibition. 29 June - 7 July 2024. Suffolk/imagine...Digital Soul by ArtX Gallery. 29-31 May 2024. Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco