Guan Xiao
- Year of birth, place
- 1983, Chongqing, People's Republic of China
- lives and works in
- Peking, People's Republic of China
- Biography
The Chinese artist Guan Xiao reacts in her works to the endless flood of images that surround a person on the Internet day in and day out, and that are taken for granted today as a part of our everyday life. In her multichannel video installations, she takes these images out of their original context and translates them into an order that mostly follows a purely personal logic. With intuitive cutting sequences that are marked by a strong visual and language rhythm, the resulting newly revealed, nonhierarchical contexts of meaning help the viewer to understand the conditions of sight and perception in a media-informed global present that exists in a constantly shifting state.
[2017]
