About Isa Ho (何孟娟)
Ho is strongly influenced by her previous experience in oil painting, which leads to the rigorous composition serves as the basis of her photographic works, which challenge the documentary attribute of photography and add a flair of special charm of storytelling. The artist has developed distinct discourse of photography that reveals the conflict between the value of individual and society which causes the sense of confusion by employing the directorial photography and the technique of digital synthesis to constantly reconstruct and justify the so-called realities. The artist deliberately liberates the fragments of her personality, allowing each of them to act as it pleases. As unending as the stream of consciousness, the conflict between her identities and the stereotypes that traditional society holds about women are discharged from her works. Accordingly, the female figures in her works sometimes were presented as pampered princesses, and the other times were portrayed as resolute fighters who defend traditions. The artist’s very nature is to present aesthetically with digital technology, which demonstrates a brilliant piece of rational thinking. Ho’s adventurous quest for her true self in the terrifying waves of art looms large from these riveting photographs.