Gao Yuan "Un(Re)Marked"
Soho Photo Gallery
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Soho Photo presents that January’s guest exhibitor is Gao Yuan, a Chinese-born artist who will present three bodies of work-- Grafitti, Twelve Moons and Chinese Gangster under the umbrella title, Un(Re)Marked. Yuan says:
I like to use photography to probe and search the surface of appearances. The first and most fundamental territory that we inhabit is the territory of our own body. The way we adorn it is emblematic of personal and social identity. Patterning the surface of our body serves a dual function of both obscuring and proclaiming, masking vulnerable identity and marking individual status. There is also a contradiction in the act of tattooing as it asserts difference but also shows the willingness to subsume one’s individual identity within a sub-group.
Yuan, who is based in both Beijing and New York City, earned her MFA in Photography at the University of Nippon, Graduate School of Art. Yuan has had solo exhibitions at galleries in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei, among others, and has been in numerous group shows in Europe, Asia and the United States. She won the 2011 Grand Prize in the Kaunas Biennial Rewind Personal Story Competition for her "12 Moons" project.
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Schedule
from January 04, 2012 to February 04, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-01-05 from 18:00 to 20:00