The Fascination of Flowers — Works by Wang Xiaohui: Conceptual Photography Series

Author: Wang Xiaohui
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: The artist Wang Xiaohui embodies astonishing stories, as if a fictional life from a movie script, with constant twists and climaxes. Her art is inseparable from her legendary life, and it further enhances the legendary aura of her work. 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 presented concrete forms are often her own confessions and performances. In her works, all the images are actually roles she directs in the theater of her own life. It is rare to see a photographic artist as powerful as Wang Xiaohui, whose magnetic field guides all elements in her work toward her. This invisible yet impenetrable aura makes her creations, regardless of the theme, resemble her autobiography. The flowers she shoots are not just flowers; they must also be the flowers of her youth, meticulously and intentionally arranged by Wang Xiaohui in a cool and rational manner, with symbolic tension. This is a conceptualized photographic work consciously constructed by the artist. In this album, Wang Xiaohui brings her lens close to flowers and fruits, reflecting her contemplation on the impermanence of life and her persistent 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 vast waves of emotion within her heart. Wang Xiaohui's flower image series hased a new path for the creation of flower-themed 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 state that cannot be expressed in words through her "flowers."