"Photography was invented for the purpose of recording objective truth. However, while using this medium, especially using it as a medium of artistic expression, one will discover that photography does not completely record reality. Any photograph can only depict a certain section of the world, with a certain width and a certain length." Miao Xiaochun
Miao Xiaochun is a multidisciplinary artist who has been relentlessly expanding the boundaries of photography into the realm of new media. New Urban Reality (2004-2008) focuses on the rapid changes that Chinese cities are facing nowadays. His large, colourful and complex photographs sometimes combine different moment with the help of digital technology. Rather phantasmagoria than faithful documents, Miao’s photographs question the incompatibility between ancient and modern, oriental and western, faithfulness and simulacra, and eventually convey a different sense of reality.
Miao Xiaochun 缪晓春 was born in 1964 in Wuxi, China. He studied in Nanjing University, Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts and Kassel Kunsthochschuke in Germany. He currently lives and works in Beijing, where he teaches at the Department of Photography and Digital Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. His works have been widely exhibited around the world.
