"Aphasia" and Double Outlook on Life —— Wang Ping's Contemporary Photography classics reading

With the great social changes in the 20th century, the birth of photography is the progress of science and technology, which provides us with the richest visual expression. Once photography is classified into the ranks of art, its essential function-objective recording has also been given more content. Contemporary popular concept photography art can express photography as a concept.

No matter how subjective, photography will eventually present us with a kind of "reality", whether it is just a virtual reality or not. It is this "truth" that always attracts us to know, comprehend, interpret and think.

Wang Ping is a professional artist. In his own practice, he practices painting art, new media art, installation art and so on. As a photographer, he mixed people from many media worlds in the series Face, and expounded the docking attitude of various relationships between people and society on different occasions.

In all kinds of complex relationships in modern cities, all kinds of emotional masks that interpersonal communication must have will appear in different ways. Because of the entanglement of interests, it will inevitably collide, break and erupt, and finally present the essential characteristics of people. We can imitate some bad phenomena in the real society, such as the unscrupulous pursuit of interests, express integrity, simplicity and profundity through our own visual impact, so as to see the independence of individual thinking in social change. Starting from the language noumenon of photography, this paper thinks about how to observe the heart, witness human nature, construct oneself and observe the world, so that the work can gain a new concept.

It can be said that Wang Ping's conceptual photography does not record a kind of truth by snapping, but presents an imitated truth by posing, a discourse pattern created by China's unique social status. The artist himself intends to reconstruct the relationship between people and between people and social strata. This kind of thinking and spirit is an independent innovation, a transcendence of life and an artistic position. This is the core of our contemporary photography questioning the practical significance.

As we all know, photography, as a plane visual medium with the greatest influence on human beings, produces countless images every day. But in the end, few people can witness human nature and contribute to making photography an art.

Wang Ping's photography works are all carried out according to the ontology of photography language system, which not only exudes unique personality charm and character, but also shows us the power of photography to witness human nature. In the era of highly elite photography, news reporting photography, commercial photography and other functions are gradually excluded from photography, so that only photography itself is left, that is, exploring tone rhythm, subtle and complex contrast, exquisite composition and superb and highly personalized production in photography, in order to maintain the high purity of its photographic language.

His series of works, from the form of presentation to the concept of expression, can be called powerful and proud works, which is also the charm of Wang Ping's concept photography.