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Candice Kwan lives and works in New York. Born in Hong Kong, she immigrated to the U.S. with her family when she was nine. She received her A.B. and M.D. from Harvard University, and M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in photography, video, and lens-related media. She works as both physician and artist.
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30 imagesThe Long, The Lovely Drunkenness employs staged still-life photography to create a new iconography of motherhood while rejecting the ubiquitous visual trope of Madonna and child. The title pays homage to Tillie Olsen’s short story “Tell Me A Riddle”. Rejecting historical platitudes, the project distills the intense, complex, and transformative experience of becoming a mother into a series of “visual haikus” with domestic objects and body fragments. -
12 imagesNuclear Fictions explores the interstitial moments that fuse together a new family, loosely based on my personal experience becoming a mother. Using staged photography of domestic scenes, the project focuses on the transformative period of early motherhood when roles evolve rapidly by necessity. The young mother is simultaneously intertwined and separate from her family in the theatre of the home, and the presence of the child in the world alters her understanding of the world itself. -
11 images“Suspension of Things Present” employs long-exposure photography to reflect the experience of pregnancy and sense of incubating change. Wanting to suspend time when she was pregnant with her daughter, Kwan used long exposures to disconnect the photographed scene from the specificity of its quotidian moment. These images attempt to evoke a psychological and emotional resonance while refusing to provide literal clarity.