Everywhere in life we are gazed at by others. In public spaces, in social networks, we are watching others and being watched by others every day.

I have selected a series of photographs taken in public spaces between 2013 and 2021, mostly at tourist sites, looking for people who are inadvertently photographed and zooming in on the hidden gaze of others in the background. The act of photographing draws the attention of others, analogous to the current public space of the internet, where an image is published, a text is posted, and it is being watched all the time.

I print these selected images as postcards and place them in envelopes with a window that reveals only the eye part of the viewer, in this way I want to materialise the relationship between human beings who gaze at each other, I bind these envelopes as if they were the pages of a book, and the window that was originally used to write the recipient’s address becomes the medium of the gaze, and we don’t know what other people are thinking about when they look at us, what kind of evaluations and interpretations they make, or simply by what is around us. or simply attracted to what is around us, we mistakenly think we are being watched by others. These gazes exist in the form of letters, like the advertising letters in our letterboxes, the advertising emails and promotional messages we receive every day. The weight of trying to translate these inconsequential messages using such a presentation is something we face all the time in our lives.

All envelopes are standard size 114 x 229mm mailing envelopes, the cover is a large 229 x 324mm envelope just right to bind all the letters together, eighty-six gazettes and weighs about 1.5kg.

Published in 2023
11.5 x 23 cm
184 pages

Showcased as part of Jimei x Arles: Travelling Photobook Showcase at the 9th SIPF Photobook Showcase

Artist Biography:

Born in Jiashan, Zhejiang Province in 1993, she studied in France from  2016 to 2022 and graduated from the Master of Visual Communication at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lorraine, France, in the direction of art and graphic design.

Her works mainly explore the boundary between conceptual art and graphic design language; transform the identity of daily life objects and use the visual elements found everywhere as creative materials; think about the relationship between the individual and the public space of the Internet in the post-epidemic era; and explore the survival of the “artwork” of paper media in the digital environment.