Detail: Miao Jiaxin and Wang Yiqun will present their recent work which feature of every modern city. The artist discards his naked self in a public space, as if he were a pile of garbage, consumed by human beings, broken, deserted and ignored, covered by snow and frozen in the cold. Through his own experience, he explores people's status of existence and their relationship with environment, indicating that everything is transient in a consumer society and such is the game rule. The artist throws the body of a human being in the urban street as if it were a useless object. By falling to the very low, he rejects a seemingly harmonious coexistence with the society.
Although the photographer's body is always present, it is not his intention to play "hide and seek" with the viewers. The photographer steps out from behind the camera, trying to disappear in his own pictures, and his "escapes" cause the confusion among viewers. The interpretation of photography is between a semantic and a non-semantic one. Photography is not as abstract as music or as direct as words. Its charm lies in its inherent ambiguity and people always expect to see the world through it. In Miao Jiaxin's Good Night series, however, the truth of images is even more powerful than the truth of the world. The panoramic composition ignores the visual focus, and the collective escape of subjects and objects tears down the last veil between us and the truth, pointing directly at our obsolete inner world.
Miao Jiaxin has proficient photographic techniques. Although the pictures were taken at night, we can still see the details clearly. He gives the utmost attention to light, dark details and grains. Each photo can be seen as a perfect presentation of New York at night-time, and is therefore a representation of the artist's perfectionist ideal. The title "Good Night" carries a calm and cozy tone. Embracing the quiet night and beautiful body, his art stands in a shiny pose, opposite a shiny New York.