Zhang Xiaoming > Born in 1974 in Xi’an, Sha’anxi province. In 1995, he graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. Now he lives and works in Xi’an as a professional photographer.
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 would usually visit small villages and towns close to Shaanxi Province in the Northwest of China…
