From Below: Shao-Feng Hsu

From Below features selections from two parallel bodies of work by Shao-Feng Hsu, who employs both analog and digital methods of photographic image production. Hsu’s practice is rooted in a deeply embodied practice in the water and an intimate observation of ecotones, the spaces between biological communities. His images of coastal features in the Bay Area, his current home, tie him to his homeland of Taiwan across the Pacific Ocean. Whether focused on the tidal zone at dusk or the pattern of his breath underwater beneath a new moon, Hsu explores the relationships between water and air, land and sea, bodies and the environment, and our connections with the people and places we long to be near.