Zhongjia Sun




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Taking Selfie in front of the Master
for T Magazine

‘Seeing comes before words…It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world.’
In John Berger’s seminal works, Ways of Seeing, he addresses the significant role of seeing, and the complex motivations and power dynamics it involves.
In today’s world, mobile phones have almost becoming the extension of our sensory organ, questions like how we see and express ourselves, how we see art works, and what we have actually seen, have become
increasingly intriguing.

“Taking Selfie in front of the Mater” is my responses to a selection of iconic photography works that revolve around feminism and queer culture,
as well as the extended issues of identity construction, gender violence, the fluidity of gender and identity, and the ambiguity between the subjectivity and objectivity of seeing. Taking selfie in front of art works
when visiting museum has become a common practice among museum visitors, where the art works are consumed as oversimplified and consumable symbols. In contrast, I chose to place myself ‘in’ the art works themselves. Through this, I convert myself into both the subject and object of seeing —— I proactively revisit myself through works that focus on the identity construction of minority groups, while audiences also see me as an object in my works. This mutual reflection might provide a tool and a chance for audiences to re-examine themselves in seeing.































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Zhongjia Sun is a photographer and artist based between Shanghai and New York. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, her work blends photography and video to explore the aesthetics of art, fashion, and advertising through surreal symbolism and cross-cultural references. Her clients include Prada, Miu Miu, Bvlgari, Vogue, and Bloomberg Businessweek, and her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at Art in Haus Shanghai.









Exhibitions
2024 
Click Together
Art in Haus
Shanghai

2022
TWIN
NFT
foundation.app

2020
New Visions
Fotografiska Museum
New York





Selected Clients
Editorial
Vogue
Wallpaper
T Magazine
V Magazine
Nowness

Advertising
miumiu
Prada
Calvin Klein
Uniqlo
Chanel
Rimowa
Bvlgari
La Mer
Nike
POP MART