In the current exhibition of Untitled Being II (2001), the camera and its object form an even more intimate relationship: the artist herself acts as a whole body painted with color, an unidentifiable human-shaped creature writhing and licking its own body alone in a narrow space encircled by a white canopy. It may be said that this is a performance of the vital body’s narcissism, but even more it can be seen as a stalemate between the gaze of the artist and the gaze of the machine, resulting in the conscious objectification of her own body.
