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  • Tang Libo(Gu Shi)
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Born in 1979 in Dalian, Liaoning Province.

Graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Dalian University in 2001, majoring in Clothing Art and Design.

Currently lives and works in Beijing, China.

 

SOLO EXHIBITION

2023

Reproduced emoji noise – Wizard Tang Solo Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre 3.0 Space, BeijingChina

2017

Wildlife! – Wizard Tang's solo rock and roll themed photography exhibition, China World Trade Centre Intershare, BeijingChina

2015

They - Wizard Tang's Solo Photography Exhibition, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, ShanxiChina

They - Wizard Tang's Solo Photography Exhibition, Dali International Photography Festival, Dali, YunnanChina

Consciousness ̇ Boundless - Wizard Tang's solo rock and roll themed photography exhibition, Yugongyishanlivehouse, BeijingChina

2014

Weightlessness - Wizard Tang's solo rock and roll themed photography exhibition, Black Ice Photography Studio, BeijingChina

 

GROUP EXHIBITION

2023

The Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 165, Bristol, UK

Synthetic Living - Image Art in the Digital Era, The 2nd Chengdu International Photography Festival, Chengdu Contemporary Image Gallery, Chengdu, ChengduChina

2022

Head On Photography Festival, Sydney NSW, Sydney, Australia

The First Chengdu International Photography Festival, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China

2017

The First Beijing International Short Film Festival BISFF 2017, BeijingUllens Center for the ArtsChina

2016

Faces of China - World Image Expo photokina, Cologne, Germany

2014

Modern Sky Music Festival Photography 5-Person Exhibition, BeijingBeijing Haidian ParkChina

2011

Mania Beatles Classic Retrospective Photography Exhibition, BeijingEnryder GalleryChina 

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My works engage with the situation of ordinary people involved in the wave of consumerism. The discarded and displaced items in the hallway offers us a glimpse of the material life of common urban dwellers in big cities during the process of commercialization, allowing us to experience their fast-changing states of life.

The clutter that spills out from private spaces of individual households into the public hallway serves as a poignant metaphor, evoking images of “dried fish” stranded on the beach of desire when the great tide is on the ebb, mirroring the rapidly growing desire of consumption in this era. These remnants of desire, after a brief moment of fulfillment, overflow, and revelry, become a norm of enduring insatiability.

The images are arranged into the deconstructive and distorted collages through the creator’s uninhibited imagination, thus adorning the obsolete everyday objects with a sense of strangeness, thrill, industrial characteristics, and fast food quality. generally demonstrating a nuanced connection of the real and the fictitious as a form of irony that challenges the realities we all take for granted. 

Finally, some images are relocated into stainless-steel boxes which imitate unpacked delivery packages. After undergoing multiple rounds of constant transformations, the original images are gradually washed out, and eventually become video art installations.

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