Body in Translation, As If Rewritten

Body in Translation, As If Rewritten examines how bodies are captured and governed through systems of interpretation and classification. By submitting images and 3D scans of the artist’s body to algorithmic processes, lived presence is reduced to measurable surfaces, shaped through projection, misrecognition, and imposed frameworks. Across the series, this data is re-materialized through ceramic and sculptural forms, where weight, texture, and instability interrupt digital abstraction. The works position the body as fragmented and opaque, resisting full comprehension while exposing how authority operates through both technological and cultural regimes of representation.

Hsin Min Chan is a Taiwanese artist based in the Netherlands. Through an auto-ethnographic lens, her practice examines how bodies are shaped and regulated by institutional, cultural, and technological systems. Working across ceramics and performative installations, she treats material as a site where bodily resistance takes form, unsettling authority across objects, spaces, and everyday environments.