How Are You Doing Now?

• Photographer
  Xusha Chen
• Technical Info
  Digital image
• Photo Date
  2025

How Are You Doing Now is a series of performance-based photographs exploring how individuals respond to trauma in the post-COVID era. Using my own body, gestures, and domestic space, I revisit scenes of fear, isolation, and longing—my mother tying my hair, a dazed moment on the sofa, scattered luggage. These images reactivate embodied memory, extending time through reenactment. Photography becomes not documentation, but a way to hold grief, preserve loss, and ask: can we truly remember, mourn, and begin again?