Jin Chan

You Know that Feeling You Get Right After You Vomit? Yeah, I Want to Feel That.

In Limbo, 2020 (26″x35, archival inkjet print)

You Know that Feeling You Get Right After You Vomit? Yeah, I Want to Feel That uses digitally manipulated self-portraiture, visual metaphor, found object sculptural forms, and surrealistic imagery, to navigate what it means to exist between social boundaries such as sexual orientation, race, or culture through the surrealistic realization of abjection and uncanniness. Such “in-betweeness” is represented by images of my body fractured and separated into limbs and torsos as a metaphor for the split psyche. By referencing traditional tropes within art history, such as flowers, fruit, the nude, and death portraiture, I redefine myself in my own terms from the ground up.

Cut Down, 2019 (12″x16″, *archival inkjet print)*

Madonna without Child, 2020 (13″x19″, *archival inkjet print)*

Chop Chop, 2019 (13″x17″, *archival inkjet print)*

Trails, 2019 (12″x16″, *archival inkjet print)*

Washed, 2020 (24″x36″, *archival inkjet print)*

Am I Cursed to Repeat, 2019 (12″x16″, *archival inkjet print)*

Born in Ithaca, NY, in 1995, Jin Chan is an MFA candidate RIT Photo and Related Media program currently living in Rochester, NY, where he has taught Intro to Digital Photography and worked in the William Harris Gallery. He is an active member of the local cosplay community.