Qiuyi Hesse Wei
About
Born in Nanjing, China, 1999.
Hesse sees her art practices as the exploration of various embodied topics and as the political responses to them, directing with a contemplative and imaginative sensitivity to an exploration of a wide range of contemporary topics centered on the personal experience of depersonalization.
During the MRes(2023-2024), her comics project, The Astronaut Diagnosis, explores the tension of narratives between medical discourses and one’s autobiographical memories of the fragmented experience of depersonalization, reflecting on how the autonomy of an individual can be undermined by medical diagnosis how the autonomy of an individual can be undermined by medical diagnosis. It speaks more broadly to the identity shifts and challenges that medical diagnosis, especially that of mental disorder, brings with it, both on an individual and social level.
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