Avatar: Beautification and Self-loathing

The social network gives people the freedom to display to the greatest extent in virtual social interaction, and promotes the release and display of the "ideal self". These "perfect personalities" always make us as audiences immersed in a sense of relative lack, and as performers, we are also "trapped" in a cage of self-expression. This project try to demonstrate the dilemma and alienation of contemporary people's spiritual world by creating a collision between entangled illusion and reality on social media. 

Cube Display
Cube Display
Lens and Self-reflection
Lens and Self-reflection
Card

In order to make the audience understand my works better, I made a series of cards to introduce to them. The texts quote the statements of victims of appearance anxiety and some suggestions of authorities as well.

WHIRLPOO
WHIRLPOO

Xiaoya Huang

Avatar: Beautification and Self-loathing