The Stir Art Gallery in Shanghai’s Luwan district opens a photo exhibition Tuesday entitled “The Other Side of Reality” featuring the works of 23-year-old Jiangxi photographer Yan De Xiu. The obscured photos straddle the line between camera and computer as well as the line between reality and the photographic reality. Stir wrote of the exhibition:
Objects in the works have been pulled out of their real being and then frozen in a moment of a gaze - the images of eerie silence, the state of madness, the condensation of thoughts, and the calm excitement. As the artist puts it, “human is a species of emotion. They are made to express their emotions. You long for their collision and friction that cause to spark, even just for a split of a second. That excites us. But in the pace of reality, there are too many barriers and indifference between people, and between people and their surroundings.
Saturday, Yan will be at the Stir for an artist reception and official opening.
“The Other Side of Reality”
11/27/07 - 12/31/07
Stir Art Gallery
172 Jin Xian Road
Shanghai
POST A COMMENT