Run Pluto Run
2025
Variable Dimensions
Photobook,
Single-Channel Moving Image, Inkjet Print on Awagami Paper with LED Backlight
Run Pluto Run explores queer desire as a site of both connection and fragmentation. Informed by Lacanian thought, it examines how desire destabilizes the self, revealing a persistent sense of lack and a dissonance between internal experience and external recognition. Queer desire is not only driven by longing, but also shaped by absence, misrecognition, and the social structures that render it invisible or illegible.
Rather than seeking resolution, the work embraces desire as a shifting state: fluid, elusive, and often dislocated. Through surreal and symbolic imagery, it traces how desire complicates identity, blurring the boundaries between estrangement, recognition, and transformation.
Moving Image Credits:
Music by Erwin Canuela Performance by Josh Tirados
Showcased as a part of ‘And Still’, the 15th edition of the Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Photography Exhibition.