| Every morning I walk to work along the same boring
road. Day after day I repeat the same actions. Sometimes I leave
Haikou to go to Guangzhou, Beijing or some other place, but after
I step out of the airport or railway station I feel as though I
am still in Haikou. The buildings that line the streets seem to
be the same kind of modern buildings, with the same mosaic tile
or brick wall facing, the same architectural styles. Even the sky
seems to be the same shade of blue. Just that same morning I had
still been sitting at home; now it is afternoon and I am already
in Beijing or Shanghai. If I take a flight from China to America
today, and spend 24 hours travelling, when I arrive in America it
will still be today, departure and arrival seem to be the same time.
These many similarities and
repetitions make me think that reality must be false, that sensory
perceptions are ambiguous. Faced with this 2-dimensional kind of
life, an utopian dreamland for the common people, I can only make
subjective conjectures – it is like an empty, insubstantial
body or ornament, and I have no way of freeing myself. It seems
that it is because of reality that I am searching for this kind
of fabricated sensation, reality – that you cannot possibly
resist, that you cannot ever go back to.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Out of Red, Spazio
Consolo, Milan; 2002: New Photography from China, CourtYard, Beijng,
China; How Big the World, OK Contemporary Art Center, Austria; Limits
of Bodies, Shangri-La Art Center, Beijng, China; 2001: Knowledge
is Power, Xidan Library, Beijng, China; 16th Asian International
Art Exhibition, Museum of Art, Guangdong, China; 1st Chengdu Biennale,
China; Body Resources and Materials, Arts Commune, Hong Kong; Trick
or Treat, Sho Art Maison Library, Tokyo; Virtual Future, Museum
of Art, Guangdong; L’Album de Famille China September Phtography
Festival, Soardi, Nice; 2000: China Avant-garde Artists Documentary
Exhibition, Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; Charming China, East, Shanghai;
Man/Animal, Guilin, China; Family, Shanghai; Xieyang UIsland Performance
Art Festival, Guangxi, China; Normal and Abnormal, Yuangong Art
Gallery, Shanghai; 1999: Departing from China, Design Museum, Beijng;
1998: Asia-Pacific Contemporary Art Exhibition, Provincial Museum,
Fujian. |