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ARTIST STATEMENT
In his collages, Yan Xudong: The Color Of The Sunrise and Red, Hsu engages with ideas of desire and his Asian American identity. Desire takes on multiple forms in Hsu’s work, sexual desire is coupled with the longing for social belonging and recognition. Asian Americans are often seen as perpetual foreigners, even when native to the United States; furthermore, Asian men are often viewed as emasculated and desexualized in contemporary American culture. Hsu explores feelings of exclusion and isolation as well as a desire for connection and community within the Asian American community. He explores his identity, caught between the desire to belong to the Asian American community and the desire to assimilate into American culture.
BIO
Benji Hsu (b. 2002) is an artist from Oakland based in New York. His work reflects his own experiences, focusing heavily on the influence of racial identity and intimate relationships. He grounds his work in lens based mediums that features his relationships with his friends and lovers. Hsu engages with a layered history of othering and their ongoing legacies through questioning what it means to be visible and allowed to desire.