 or the year 2008 the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre will organize a series of solo exhibitions by contemporary photography and video artists. The series will research and display the work of artists who have long been exploring and experimenting in contemporary photography and video.
 Zhao Liang, the first artist to be featured in the Three Shadows 2008 Solo Exhibition Series, has been involved in video art, documentaries, short films, and photography for a long period of time，after his study in the Photography Department of the Beijing Film Academy (Narrative Photography). He is also the director of the Three Shadows Moving Image Studio.
Since 2007, Zhao Liang's documentary film "Crime and Punishment" have also won several important international awards: Best Director Award at the 10th One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic; the Silver Lady Harimaguada Award at the 9th Annual Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival, Spain; the Montgolfiere d’or Award at the Festival of Three Continents, Nantes, France.
In an Instant shows Zhao Liang's newest photography and video installation works. Combining projections, installations, sounds, photographs, and light boxes, Zhao Liang's works unite and transform the exhibition space into an organic whole.
During the exhibition Three Shadows will also show Zhao Liang's documentaries and short films, which have received critical attention around the world, such as “Crime and Punishment”、“Paper Airplane”、“Farewell”、“Yuanmingyuan” and “Bored Youth”.
Each work reveals the artist's acute observations of social realities in China. By exploring urban and rural life in Chinese society, Zhao Liang attains a penetrating understanding of individual truth and conceptually embodies the temporality of events and existence in his works. His works explore the origins of an event by examining the background of a narrative or the veiled layers of the real in an attempt to bring to light the inevitable and repeated mechanisms behind reality. The subject matter that Zhao Liang uses comes straight from what he sees and hears in the real world, and his finished works present representations of the ordinary. The most important aspect of his works, then, is the artist's attitude toward reality and reality's expressions.
The followings are some works by Zhao Liang that will display in the solo show:
Zhao Liang，Boy Holding Smoke，Chromogenic Print，2004
Zhao Liang，Water No. 1，Chromogenic Print，2006
Zhao Liang， Beijing Green No. 2，Chromogenic Print，2004 — 2007
Zhao Liang， Beijing Green No. 2
Zhao Liang， Beijing Green No. 2
Zhao Liang， Beijing Green No. 2
|
