Harold Washington Library Center hosts an Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month art exhibit through the month of May on the third floor featuring artist Chune Yen Chou.
Chune Yen Chou is an artist primarily working with photography to explore the tension between Eastern and Western values and how queer identity plays in result of this tension. This specific series of work tangent reflects on the visibility of transgender roles where many of us is being placed in the spot to perform but at the same time forced to hide our true identity, refrained from the general public. Performances in varieties of media has been a crucial push for our visibility however most of the time it has diverged from its purpose. Our identity is slowly being recognized by the public, but we still do not receive respect and openness from the general public, we are still forced to remain hidden. The status of our identity in this current society is tangent, touching but not intersecting.
