回家 (huí jiā)

回家 (huí jiā) equates to an autobiographical assemblage that can be viewed as an ongoing exploration of representational processes – one that adds an action photo each time the artist moves apartment or stages a new exhibition.

回 (huí) translates as “circle”, “time”, “to go back”, “to turn around” and/or “to respond” and 家 (jiā) as “home” and/or “family”. Together, they mean homecoming, and this return represents an autobiographical journey through my identity-search processes. This is an ongoing project (2018-) that depicts my gender transition while delving into the concept of intimacy, connecting the private and home and understanding the body as a place to inhabit. It takes place between the different households where I have lived. Thus, each chapter opens a new door to delve into a new aspect of my identity. 回家 (huí jiā) captures the aesthetic exploration and physical changes my body goes through time. I explore the different possibilities of my image in it, by multiplying it, breaking it, shaping it... This way, the project challenges the limits of gender through the creation and development of someone who inhabits femininity through a transmasculine body, that is unmade to be made again, that goes toward its place of origin. By portraying people that surround me, I show the other side that accompany me and through which I also build my own sense of kinship. These photographs, which play with the codes of family portraiture, serve to question consanguinity by emphasizing the idea of adoption as a choice. The camera accompanies me by creating affective relationships and documenting vital changes. This concept addresses transitioning as a return to a place which is familiar to the body, circular and constructed as a home. The project functions as a visual diary of everyday experiences entangled in multiple identity transitions, where gender, racialization, and adoption intertwine, where both author and work mutually shape each other. Showing all the effects of treatments, my entire aesthetic change, and the evolution of someone who, at this moment, is also advancing in their own youth, 回家 (huí jiā) is an expansion through space and time.