Liu Jingxun > Born in 1971, he is a Muslim from the Hui minority nationality. He works and lives in Lanzhou. He is the artistic director of Gucang Contemporary Photography Space and secretary-general of the Hou Dengke Photography Award.
Human relationships, which function according to “traditional” expressive and behavioral codes, become devoid of their original foundation, thus merely retaining their “formal” aspects, which in turn imbues them with a greater complexity, given that it becomes increasingly difficult to gauge the sincerity and depth of what one says (and of what one is).
In contemporary China, uncertainty about what is “true” and what is “false”, “reality” and “appearance”, extends from the realm of photography to that of existence itself. We often feel that we are confronted with such an illusory, ambiguous, unexpected “reality” as to lead us to doubt not just our perceptions, but our very capacity for interpretation.
I used a camera for the first time when I was 12 years old. I went along with my father, a photographer, on his visit to Tibet…
