Yang Xiaobin Yang Xiaobin of Farah

-Post-photography exhibition "Smearing and Traces"

Venue: Beijing-Shangyuan Art Museum

Exhibition time: 4-20 September 2008

Opening ceremony: At 3:30 pm on September 4th, in the exhibition hall of Shangyuan Art Museum Library, the poet Yang will organize an amphibious cross-border artistic exchange of poetry and images.

Planning: Cheng Xiaobei

Yang is an excellent poet and scholar first, and then a photographer. The photos he took aroused my great concern. From the photos he took, I saw traces of unintentional activities that would appear in all stages of human history, which provided people who paid attention to it with unlimited imagination, that is, places that were often overlooked. Yang Xuan's cut pictures show my imagination and illusion when I was lonely and depressed when I was a child and looked at the stain on the ceiling or a corner for a long time. These pictures change with my thoughts, and the pictures are as far away as my thoughts. Yang pays attention to the narrative of the pattern, the integrity of the composition and the visual effect of the picture. Each of his paintings provides us with an excellent starting point for fantasy.

In his own words: smearing not only makes the traces disappear, but also produces more traces. These casual traces are hidden in the world of language and symbols, but they always exist. What "post-photography" wants to capture is the trace image forgotten and rejected by the standard photography language.

The word trace comes from Derrida's concept trace. Traces: History that cannot be concealed. History is always peeling off in casual places. Daub Derrida's concept rewrite. Defamation: the deletion of history. The deleted history inadvertently reveals more impressions.

This kind of trace is also Zizek's description of the omitted small objects in the real world ―― the real world appears and disappears in our symbolic world in the form of trace.

On the one hand, history always presents different pictures in the process of wiping and smearing; On the other hand, the hidden reality always shows its traces in the gap of this process.

So the trace information can't fully show a clear picture. Traces are both accidental and unknown.

Workers have no intention of leaving traces on the wall, this is the first time to create; Yang intends to cut it, ingest it and recreate it; When the audience watches the works according to their own life experience, they create for the third time in their own minds. This is the charm of Yang's works.