Flowers' Delusion: Works Collection of Conceptual Photography by Wang Xiaohui

Author: Wang Xiaohui
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: The artist Wang Xiaohui embodies astonishing stories, like a fictional life in a movie script, with constant twists and climaxes. Her art is inseparable from her legendary life, and it further enhances her legendary aura. Wang Xiaohui lives in Germany but frequently travels around the world. Her lens is always ceaselessly capturing samples of life. Through her unique perspective and editing, she records the visual traces of her thoughts with her camera. Her images are imprints of time, yet the final concrete forms often reveal her own confessions and performances. In her works, all the images are actually roles she directs in her life theater. It is rare to see a photographic artist like Wang Xiaohui possess such a powerful magnetic field, guiding all elements in her works to point back to her. This intangible yet impenetrable aura makes her creations, regardless of the theme, resemble her autobiography. The flowers she photographs were originally just flowers in their prime, yet they become the result of Wang Xiaohui's deliberate and rational cultivation, imbued with symbolic tension and conscious conceptual photography. In this album, Wang Xiaohui brings her lens close to flowers and fruits, reflecting her life experiences of suffering and separation between heaven and earth. The process of life and death reveals her sentiments about the impermanence of life, as well as her persistent impulses and passion for a difficult life. Through Xiaohui's eyes, I am able to get closer to her, and through her gentle exterior, I glimpse the tumultuous waves within her heart. Wang Xiaohui's floral image series has created a new path for the creation of floral works. Her "flowers" do not return to the natural attribute of "beauty"; they do not exist merely as natural ornamental objects. In Wang Xiaohui's unique structural style, they embody all human attributes: the richness, loneliness, and primal impulses of human life. She conveys to us a certain intangible state through "flowers."