Miao Xiaochun

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¡¡¡¡Mirage: Images by Miao Xiaochun¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Gu Zhenqing

¡¡¡¡Miao Xiaochun has always been inclined to think rationally. He likes to draw support from the superb effect of the latest digital technology to manage his frames in the postproduction of his photography in a calm and collected way. The images in his works can hardly be separated from his daily life, or in a sense the two are like the external and internal of the same thing. Therefore, he tries his best to introduce into his works man¡¯s visual experience of the naked eye in the wide spectrum, through which he devotes himself to unfolding great narrative structure through two dimensional images according to the thread of time. Through careful rearrangement and reorganization of the images, he boldly follows and restores the panorama of the boundless world and human society. At the same time, he continues to raise the resolution ratio and the exhibition size of his works so as to bring them closer to reality. As a matter of fact, the reality Miao Xiaochun presses on towards is a kind of common visual experience and the life such experience represents. To be more exact, what he tries to present is a kind of field scene of dynamic reality, namely, the field of the actual life undergoing drastic changes in China¡¯s social transference. Facing Miao Xiaochun¡¯s works, the audience would feel as if they were personally on the scenes and experiencing everything. As a result, Miao Xiaochun¡¯s images give people a warm and intimate feeling and a familiar sense. Miao is good at arousing the audience¡¯s empathy in the recaptured reality, thus unostentatiously imbuing into them his own sense of form and concept.
¡¡¡¡ Miao Xiaochun has always been concerned with the relation between seeing and being seen. He likes to watch his objects from various points of view and search for their interrelation. So he lays extreme importance to the interaction between his works and the audience. It is true that very often the audience has to view his works repeatedly before they can feel the elements the artists has meticulously melted into his works that are beyond their daily