5. Hold the balloon shutter release with your left hand, walk among the noisiest people in the city, and press the shutter improvisationally, arbitrarily and randomly.
The method is an attitude. Photography is originally expressed through framing and selective viewing. The "dog's perspective" and "non-watching shooting" show that I think this chaotic world is "not worthy of seeing and understanding with eyes." This behaviour reflects my mood and state at that time: like a dog from the mountains, wandering in the city, fresh, curious, and frightened, unable to understand the scenery around me. This work uses an anti-photographic attitude to capture urban landscapes, mocking and ridiculing the so-called civilized society.
Born in Tibet in 1958, Moyi 莫毅 is a professional football player turned artist. Widely recognised as one of the most important artists of Chinese Contemporary Photography that emerged from 1980s, Mo captures the alienation and oppression of urban life in China, often with the artist intervening and appearing in the image. Mo has exhibited in many institutions and art festivals, including Museum für Fotografie (Berlin, Germany, 2017), Three Shadow Photography Art Centre (Beijing, China, 2010), and the seminal travelling exhibition “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China” (International Centre of Photography, New York, USA, 2004-2006). Mo’s work is included in the collections of the Chinese Image and Video Archive (Canada), Guangdong Museum of Art (China), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (U.S.A), and the Walther Collection (USA).
