This portrait was photographed in Singapore during a Chinese opera performance and later exhibited in Milan. Captured away from the stage, the image focuses on a moment of quiet pause—where the performer rests between roles, gesture lingering after movement has ended.

When presented in the exhibition space, the photograph shifts context. What was once a fleeting, off-stage moment becomes a study of presence, identity, and restraint. Removed from its original setting, the image invites viewers to encounter Chinese opera not as spectacle, but as lived experience—carried across place, culture, and time.