Starting with a decennial school photo, Simo Tse revisited his own boyhood experience of being a boarding school pupil at a unisex institution. Ritualistic and hormonal, the rite of passage for the artist is framed within the legacy of colonial subjects, and the narrative of man-versus-wild masculinity. By reframing the photo, the artist produced a ‘reverse’ gaze back upon himself, a vantage point which peeps through the facade of uniformity. At first glance, the singular idea of masculinity is hyper-performative but unattainable while being held at close proximity.

從一張十年校照開始，謝達輝重溫自己在全男寄宿學校就讀的童年經歷。莊重儀式感交雜青春期的荷爾蒙，藝術家的成年禮是在殖民主義的遺產和男子氣概的敘述中構成。通過重新構圖，藝術家創造了一種「反向」的凝視回望自己，窺視千篇一律的校服背後的視野。乍看男子氣概的獨特觀念是超強的表現力，但在近距離接觸時卻無法實現。

Simo Tse (b.1984 Australia, he/ him) is an artist and an independent researcher. His practice anchors upon the frictions between individuality and conformity. Through accumulating anecdotal and biographical fragments, his work resulted in the forms of printed matter, moving image, installation and participatory art. Tse’s approach in image-making nested in an array of default functions, inherent with the digital desktop environment, such as screenshots, screen recording and in-built webcam filters. A graduate from Sandberg Instituut, his work has been exhibited at UNSEEN Amsterdam, the Hong Kong International Photo Festival, the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.

謝達輝（b.1984 澳洲）為藝術家和獨立研究員，創作定位在個性與從眾之間的摩擦。 通過軼事和傳記片段，他的作品見於印刷品、活動影像、裝置藝術和參與藝術等形式。 謝氏的影像製作方法嵌套在一系列桌面電腦環境的固有功能中，截圖、屏幕錄製和內置網絡攝像頭濾鏡為常見方式。 謝氏畢業於荷蘭Sandberg Instituut，他的作品曾在阿姆斯特丹 UNSEEN攝影節、香港國際攝影節、哥本哈根 Kunsthal Charlottenborg 和鹿特丹 Het Nieuwe Instituut 展出。