| This “giantess” is not really very
brave, and so she will only freely change her size and make these
kinds of gestures when the clock strikes 25:00.
Very often, the real world and the male world get mixed up in my
mind. They both come from outside me; they both exist very forcefully,
with intiative, power, and aggression. Facing these two worlds,
I often feel that I am weak and helpless, and don’t know what
to do. But just being alive means that I cannot avoid them, not
even for one day. I wish that every day there could be a certain
time like 25:00, when I could become as large as I like, and do
whatever I want.
— Chen Lingyang
Selected solo exhibitions: 2002: 2nd Pingyao International
Photography Festival; Run, Jump, Crawl, Walk, East Modern Art Center,
Beijing; 2001: Cross-Pressures, Art Museum, Oulu/ Finnish Museum of
Photography, Helsinki; Visibility, China Art Archives & Warehouse,
Beijing; Next Generation, Passage de Retz, Paris; Take Part, Urs Meile,
Lucerne; Fuck Off, Eastlink, Shanghai; Documentation of Chinese Avant-Garde
Art in ‘90s, Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka; Er Chang Generation,
Imperial Library, Beijing. |
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