These dreamy portraits rebel against stereotypes of Asian youth culture

There are many Orientalist and racist tropes in modern thinking which prescribe East Asian people as less ‘human’ than their Western counterparts. ‘Mechanistic dehumanisation,’ for example, purported in films such as Blade Runner 2049, suggests that Asian bodies and minds are closer to robots than humans: cold, overly rational, hyper-intelligent, and emotionally distant.

Many artists across the Asian continent and its diaspora challenge these tropeshellip;

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