| | | | | | | | | Luo Yang, Karman, GIRLS, 2017 © Luo Yang | | | | | | YOUTH, GIRLS | | | | Selected Works | | | | 21 October 2020 ‐ 21 February 2021 | | | | | | Francisco Carolinum Linz Museumstr. 14, A-4010 Linz
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| | | | | | | | | | Luo Yang, Wan Ying & Xue Ying, GIRLS, 2017 © Luo Yang | | | | | | The Chinese photographer Luo Yang (born 1984) is one of the most internationally recognised artists* of her generation. After completing her studies in graphic design at the renowned Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, she turned to photography. Numerous exhibitions in China in recent years, and latterly more frequently in Europe also, are proof of the international interest in her work. The presentation at FC-Francisco Carolinum of works from the series GIRLS and YOUTH is Luo Yang's first solo exhibition in Austria.
“I do think that every girl has her own beauty. It is also what I intend to present in my works. Girls who are real, confident and stay true to themselves are beautiful to me.”
Luo Yang | | | | | | | | | | Luo Yang, Princess butterfly, YOUTH, 2019 © Luo Yang | | | | | | In the series GIRLS, a long-term project she started in 2007, Luo Yang portrays Chinese women of her generation. While still a student, she began taking photographs of young women from her immediate environment, friends and acquaintances, and eventually expanded the circle to include women she met and became interested in through social media. This resulted in a kaleidoscope of a generation of women who, between traditional role models and rapid economic change in modern China, are searching for an individual lifestyle - away from conformism and social normalisation.
“The 1990s and 2000s generations are facing so many possibilities that previous generations didn’t have. They are generally more self-centered and bold, trying to strike the balance between traditions and international cultures.”
Luo Yang | | | | | | | | | | Luo Yang, Mao Weiai, YOUTH, 2019 © Luo Yang | | | | | | Freedom and the desire for self-expression and individuality also characterise the YOUTH series. After a very personal approach to the women of her generation, Luo Yang began in 2019 to photograph adolescents of Generation Z, i.e. those born in the late 1990s and around 2000. She portrays young people in China who reject stereotypes and consciously break with traditional expectations. Fluid gender classifications are as much a central theme as is the search for individual expression between creative staging and authentic body awareness. At the same time, the photographer draws a sensitive picture of urban Chinese youth in search of orientation and identity.
From a socio-political perspective, Luo Yang focuses on those generations that emerged from the Chinese one-child policy. After the end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, young women and adolescents grew up under Deng Xiaoping's reform policy, when China increasingly opened up to the West and the free market economy, resulting in a tremendous economic upswing but also enormous social upheaval. Luo Yang's photographs are an artistic document of the times: young urban women and adolescents in 21st century China, in search of individuality, self-determination and independence. | | | | | | | | | | Luo Yang, Elle Peril, GIRLS, 2017 © Luo Yang | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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