Published May/June 2018 issue of ArtAsiaPacific. To read full article, visit the magazine's Digital Library.
“‘Bodies are not born. They are made.’ This quote, by feminist, bio-anthropologist Donna Haraway, fueled a talk on the social wiring of gender by Brooklyn-based artist Jes Fan, presented one Saturday morning at a symposium organized by Hong Kong’s Para Site and hosted at Spring Workshop. In the same space was a scattering of “flesh-tone” silicone moldings of barbells and Nike slippers, the raised texture of which resembles a bed of nipples.”