Under the complicit relationship between contemporary visual culture and the medical aesthetics industry, standardised data and ideal body references are generated and distributed. People often go off course unaware, and end up pursuing homogenised aesthetics without even realising they are doing so. In this process they slowly lose the faculty of seeing and accepting their own uniqueness.

I am a victim of this system and, often unknowingly, an accomplice in my daily practices. This internalised criticism has made me see the realisation that we are slowly forgetting the differentiated bodily experiences based on our genetics and life.

In response to this, I performed a two-phase performance art piece. In phase one, the audience were invited to conduct a mapping exercise upon my body. This process symbolised how individuals become objectified and disciplined under the gaze of others. In phase two, I actively wipe away all the markings left during the mapping exercise. This wiping away is not only a symbolic resistance to the standardised aesthetic system, but a reassertion of bodily subjectivity too. By presenting my physical state without the added layer of data and norms, I evoke the recognition of the viewers to the beauty of diverse bodies, while stimulating critical thought toward aesthetic autonomy.