Yiding Chen

Photographer

Bio

Chen Yiding is an artist working with photography who explores the role of images in shaping social perception, cultural narratives, and structures of power.

Nationality

Chinese

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Default Masking Scheme

Default Masking Scheme

This series begins with my own photographs of landscapes and examines how automated recognition transforms them into new images. By reworking the masks generated during the recognition process through layering, softening, and recomposition, I create lands

Project by Yiding Chen
Borrowing Light Through a Chiseled Wall

Borrowing Light Through A Chiseled Wall

Borrowing Light Through a Chiseled Wall looks at how myopia prevention turns the eye into something to be measured, corrected and managed, tracing these ideas across Chinese eye exercises and contemporary visual training.

Project by Yiding Chen
Such an Effortless Choice

Such An Effortless Choice

Such an Effortless Choice examines how nature is continuously translated through systems of photography, display, and management. Using direct photography, the diptychs trace how natural forms are framed, replicated, and re-enter daily life as images.

Project by Yiding Chen
Natural Born Left-Handed Killer

Natural Born Left-Handed Killer

A forensic fiction where the left hand becomes evidence. Staged archives expose how photography and captions fabricate threat, turning ordinary gestures into criminal prophecy.

Project by Yiding Chen
Can You  Feel It ?

Can You Feel It ?

This project focuses on two aspects, repression and repressed voyeurism, the selected contents and the photographed content are symbols that have been the symbols of other people's traumatic memories, the symbols of repressed memories.

Project by Yiding Chen