Su Misu

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Su Misu is an artist known for her photographic and performance works that deal with sexual diversity, BDSM, and LGBTQ issues. Drawing from her background in medicine, she is particularly interested in the concepts of “the uncanny” and “the unnatural”, and through photography explores the tension between the real and the illusory within images. I am a fake but my heart is true is a series of self-portraits in which Su Misu and her cyber-celebrity friends dress up as religious figures and take selfies with stylistic references to Taiwanese temples. The work takes the religious concept of re-enchantment and applies it to consumerist media culture, in which the uploading of a self-portrait is enough to enchant the public into seeing the image of a deity.

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Su Misu (b. 1990, Taipei, Taiwan) lives and works in Taipei. In 2012 she began creating performance and photographic work dealing with BDSM, then went on to work in a red-light district in order to explore the idea of sex as an object of exchange. In 2016 she earned a project grant from the Taiwan Ministry of Culture, and published her first photography catalogue ihategoodbye. In 2019 Su Misu held a solo exhibition at Chi-Wen Gallery in Taipei.

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