The language I used in my earlier works was centered around my own body, invoking an injured mood that verged on narcissistic, but was also full of fear. I wanted to lay bare the boredom and loneliness of daily life; the works are laced with my personal experiences and have a sort of “injury complex.” In my more recent works I am concerned with the “everyday” incidents that happen all around us, that are very shocking to see although they have been swallowed by modern civilization. Wide-
ranging social problems have always been woven together with the neglect of youth; one after another beautiful fairytales are destroyed. The issues I am exploring are certainly not just relevant to photographic art, but are contemporary social problems. I use the concept of injury to
explore what routes are left open for the spirits as we face a material
subsuming of all areas of life.
— Liu Jin

Selected solo exhibitions: 2001: Fun, Beijing.
Selected group exhibitions: 2002: Readjust, Hanmo, Beijing; 2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao; View and Distance, There Photography Bar, Beijing; The Long March: A Walking Visual Display, Sichuan; Fake: China Image Annual Exhibition 2002, Artist’s Storehouse, Beijing; 2001: Constructed Reality, Art Center, Hong Kong; International Photography Festival, Dong Ying; Zero Degrees, Bridge Art Factory, Beijing; Knowledge is Power, Xidan Bookstore, Beijing; 2000: Unusual and Usual, Yuan Gong Art Museum, Shanghai; Plane: Contemporary Painting, National Women’s Activity Centre, Beijing; Open Art Platform: International Performance Art Festival, Huairou, Beijing.