The work titled On the Hunt begins with an apparently calm textual study, placing more than a century’s worth of personal ads alongside surveillance-like imagery of hunters and animals, forming a powerful and thought-provoking metaphor. By examining the qualities men and women sought in each other from 1895 to 2019, the artist reveals both the changes and continuities in social values, gender expectations, and the structure of intimate relationships. When these texts are set into double-sided frames—one side showing the “hunter’s space” of elevated stands, the other presenting nighttime images of animals being watched and captured—the viewer can hardly ignore the sense of “pursuit” that often appears in human emotional life as well: who is searching for whom? Who is active, and who is being observed? With a restrained yet incisive approach, the work raises deep questions about desire, power, gender roles, and the consumerist nature of modern intimacy. It leads the viewer to constantly shift perspectives between reading and looking, as if oscillating between the roles of hunter and prey. In this way, the piece becomes not just a visual presentation but also a mirror that exposes the hidden structures within intimate relationships—sharp, honest, and revealing.


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