- Melodie Shi
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I am a London-based multidisciplinary creative working across cultural research, writing and visual practice. Trained in anthropology, my work explores how contemporary life is shaped through media, labour, mobility and everyday meaning-making.
I hold degrees in Material and Visual Culture from UCL and Critical Practice for Fashion Media from UAL. My approach is research-led, drawing on qualitative methods and critical theory to translate complex ideas into thoughtful narratives. This site presents selected visual work from undergraduate study and early projects.
In a world of biomedical advancement in 2070, the choice to resume one’s physicality at the optimum state of one's bodily existence would be obtainable for most of the population. Therefore, prolonging the longevity of lives in society leads to an overpopulated planet at its scarce. The renewed interpretations of death and sedated euthanasia services had been introduced while emphasising the gratification and fulfilment of the living. Once a luxury for the idle elites to seek an intelligible purpose in life, the soul search machine is now accessible through the nation’s health care system for the mass suffering of decadal crises.
The production of this photo shoot was a scene from this speculative story on the extended lifespan and the morality of immortality.