Mu Ge > Born in 1979 in Wuxi County, Chongqing City. He studied at the Sichuan Normal University and then started working as a freelance photo editor and photographer. Currently he lives and works in Chengdu.
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.
In 2005, I visited my hometown, a place I am as familiar with as the back of my hand. My home was practically the same…
