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About Me

I work with lens-related media. The core of my work examines the human condition through the exploration, inquiry, and deconstruction of notions of body identity, desire, eroticism and/or sexuality.

I also write occasional articles on images for a couple of venues (I’d like to find the time to do more). Reflecting on images and provoking unusual connections are part of what makes my pulse quicken.

I live in Paris the City of Lights since the last millennium. I should mention that I’m Chinese by birth and American by citizenship, with a few other residencies on other continents thrown in between. Being a diasporic “Chinese-American” with a migratory past has given me a unique vantage point to gain postmodern insight and allowed me to critically challenge metanarratives where ready-made values and legitimacies reside. I’d like to quote French philosopher and theorist Jean-François Lyotard stating in The Postmodern Condition :

Postmodern knowledge is not simply a tool of the authorities; it refines our sensitivity to differences and reinforces our ability to tolerate the incommensurable.

 

English Bio

Chin-Chin Wu (吴沁沁), aka Post-Modern China Doll, is a Pekinese born in Shanghai, a Chinese-American located in Paris (since 1999). She is a graduate of Rice University, where she holds a Bachelor of Music in piano performance, and of Ecole Nationale Louis Lumière (France’s national cinematographic school founded by the eponymous inventor of the media), where she holds a Masters degree in photography. She did her thesis on the visual representation of the female genitalia and is currently working on a documentary on the same subject. She enjoys experimenting with still and moving imagery, as well as teaching and practicing professional photography.

Biographie (français)

Chin-Chin Wu (吴沁沁), alias Post-Modern China Doll, sino-américaine née à Shanghai, diplômée de l’École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière en France et Rice University aux Etats-Unis, vit et travaille à Paris depuis 1999. Son travail interroge sur le statut et la place de la femme à travers la représentation de son corps.