Hump Day hollowness… This quite literally vacant figure is a self-portrait, captured and visually manipulated by the Asian-American artist Tommy Kha. “Drawing on the paradoxes of his queer, diasporic identity, [Kha] deploys photo-prosthetics in tableaux to evoke the awkward artifice of assimilation while navigating his own crippling camera-shyness,” writes Alex Merola for Elephant. This image featured in a group exhibition at Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York earlier this year, zooming in on series by four different artists, each of which poses the question “where is the self in the self-portrait?” with compelling results. Discover more here.
