Shangyu Li Mirror (2020) inspired by

Petra Collins Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? (2019)

The Hungarian phrase translates as “Why be you, when you can be me?” It aims to complicate the relationships between photographer and subject. While out making my photograph, I will see it as a visual illustration. In my narration, I am obsessed with the soft, misty, ethereal consequence. ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on.’ I firmly believed, what I made in art is regarding as a significant part of my deep, like how to tighten between me and my dream. It came from me, came from my knowledge, experience, identity... Collins said, “after everything I say, I’m like, Eh, but reality isn’t reality.” But “surreal” is a descriptor for her work. All the subjects seem like they are real, truly sitting in the frame that I looked at. But I know that they only presented as what I imagining. Like a dream about me."

Exhibition

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