Conditioned to Be Loved - reshaped
I grew up learning to see my body through other people’s eyes. Through comments, comparisons, and expectations that slowly shaped how I saw myself. What felt personal wasn’t just mine. It was something shared: a quiet pressure to become acceptable, to be loved.
In this series, I use food as a stand-in for the body. Something that can be cut, measured, and changed. In these images, the body is acted on. It is controlled, shaped, and presented through external standards.
I don’t try to give an answer. I’m more interested in asking: how much have we already changed, without realizing, just to be loved?
我從小學會用他人的眼光看待自己的身體。那些評論、比較與期待,慢慢形塑了我理解自己的方式。原以為是很個人的感受,其實並不只屬於我,而是一種被共享的、安靜卻持續存在的壓力:去變得可以被接受、被愛。
在這組作品中,我用食物作為身體的替代。它可以被切割、被測量、被改變,被放入一套定義「什麼是值得被喜愛」的價值系統之中。在這些影像裡,身體是被作用的對象,被控制、被塑形、被呈現於外在標準之下。
我並不試圖給出答案。我更在意的是去提問:我們究竟在不自覺中,為了被愛,已經改變、失去了多少自己?