1.Jingjing Liu
林菁菁 is a conceptual visual artist whose work deals primarily with social-political themes. She is known for the wide range of approaches in her art, explores the depths of social and personal identity in the context of modern society, expresses the grim connection between the sexual symbolism of traditional flowers and women’s social roles.
Those roses that are being sewn and sewn mean that they are restricted and locked up, just like mummies, becoming sacrifices for sacrifices，The spirit of the work has a kind of anger that originates from women themselves and reveals the true desire that has been concealed.
2. Manwen Liu
A female artist with contemporary cultural spirit。
The unique portrait of “big white face” gives people a strong visual impact. Her subversive self-expression has undoubtedly become an iconic symbol of feminist art. For a long time, female images have often been “tamed” into an idealized state, but Manwen Liu uses a very symbolic “mask” portrait to approach the audience with a posture different from traditional conventions, presenting a This kind of forced and helpless cry of “I want to talk”, is no longer just a posture of passive listening. She covered her face with a “mask” or “mask” to make herself invisible, but obtained a female face with female “publicity”.
“Report on Survival Experience” is still a relatively straightforward illustration. If it expresses women’s contradictions among self, family, and society.
the “Ordinary Life” series further concretizes the environment into the family space, expressing the loss of “self” in the roles of wives and mothers, and the resulting problems. The dissociation and helplessness between emotions such as fate and resistance, restraint and freedom coexist. She seems to randomly capture the surrounding environment and the relationship between “self” and present it in the picture in a close-up manner, so as to express the indescribable emotions and life states in the spiritual world of modern women
3. Yijun Liao
Yijun Liao is a multi-media artist whose work covers photography, installation and performance art. Known for her choreographed photography, she is the subject of a selfie with her boyfriend Moro as an inspiration. Her work challenges the stereotypes of traditional male-female relationships and humorously explores the possibilities of intimacy.
“My work is inspired by my feelings as a girl growing up in China and as a woman in today’s world.”she said.
4. Danwen Xing
She is one of the first Chinese artists to use photography as a medium for artistic creation. Xing Danwen works in the form of photography, video and multimedia installations. Her works focus on the highly urbanized China today, reflecting on multiple issues such as local and global, desire and female identity, as well as individual and collective.
“Line” is a double-video work, which is also the problem I have always wanted to explore between people. This problem is based on the most primitive human emotional relationship between me and my mother. , one screen of the work is my mother knitting a skirt for me with full of love and focus, and the other screen is my daughter wearing a skirt and tearing it up in action. This seemingly contradictory approach actually illustrates the relationship between them. Differences in worldviews, values and methodologies. When the two videos are displayed at the same time, they are in a state of mutual recognition and support, which creates a more complex and multi-layered psychological relationship.
5.Xiuzhen yin
In the history of modern China, the struggle between women’s sensibility and the turmoil of social revolution was very fierce. She collected those objects and images and recycled them into her works. “
From old clothes, cement to porcelain, her art always carries a woman’s memory.
6.Yajuan Han
Her perspective shifts between parallel and overlooking, changing the mutual projection between her and the people in the painting, she is no longer one of them, she escapes the unconscious situation in the maze, she can dominate some things , from now on, she is both the describer and the master.
7.Tianmiao Lin
Thread and female body are two mediums that Lin Tianmiao has always used. The former comes from her childhood experiences. At that time, my mother was tearing down old sweaters, and Lin Tianmiao was winding up yarn balls. The latter comes from Lin Tianmiao’s own experiences and perceptions. A middle-aged woman loses her charm, but adds a lot of life responsibilities.Her works show a kind of nervous repetition and diffuse expansion, and almost all kinds of utensils related to domestic life are wrapped with cotton thread. The cotton thread is like a vine or organic creature that can grow on its own, crazily entangled with everything, softly, densely and neatly entwined, suppressing all vitality in this mechanical gray-white permeation… The work is stubborn The repetition reveals dissatisfaction and resentment towards the prescribed female identity; Shi Hui uses cotton thread and paper to make net-like objects, which also shows a connection between the manual labor process of repeating units and women’s daily life. What attracts attention among them is that when female artists use these materials, they elicit the concepts presented in the use. Therefore, this comprehensive form of artistic expression is not only due to the comprehensive factors of the materials of the works, but also due to the female perspective and female way in the selection and expression process, making it an unprecedented female art with clear direction.
8.Jiang Jie
Sculpture artist Jiang Jie is often defined as a feminist. In her early works, the subject matter of “baby” or “children” images can often be seen
She captured the self-perception of the proposition of “growth” in social life in a timely manner, and presented this confused process in the image of a “child” with a huge body and complex expressions. The weak and soft image forms a strong contrast with it. Therefore, her expression is also regarded by the outside world as “giving them more emotions with women’s unique sense of motherhood and delicacy, pointing directly at the fragility and helplessness of life, revealing women’s instinctive humanistic care.”
9.Xiao Lu
On February 5, 1989, two hours after the China Modern Art Exhibition was held in the National Art Museum of China, Xiao Lu fired two shots at his installation “Dialogue”, causing the exhibition to be closed immediately. Her friend Tang Song was arrested on the spot, and she surrendered hours later, and the two were detained for several days. This incident has aroused widespread concern at home and abroad. When surrounded by the media, Xiao Lu, who was only 26 years old and had just graduated, was completely at a loss for words, allowing Tang Song to explain the reason for the shooting according to his own ideas. This made both the art world and the public mistakenly believe that “Dialogue” was a work created by the two. Xiao Lu couldn’t face the real reason behind the shooting, besides, she was deeply in love with Tang Song at this time. Xiao Lu’s shooting was overshadowed by political overtones。
Because Chinese female artists generally lack artistic theoretical background, especially a clear understanding of feminist theory, they are unable to interpret their works effectively, and China also lacks feminist art criticism, so Xiao Lu’s The works are interpreted by male critics using a male perspective. This also created a gap for Tang and Song to become the interpreters and signers of the works. The reason is that Xiao Lu either hid behind Tang and Song or was not there every time he needed to explain himself. At the same time, the problem is that Xiao Lu is in love again. She didn’t learn from the mirror image she was killed. Once again she sacrifices herself to heterosexual illusions. Xiao Lu and Tang Song lived abroad for 15 years. Xiao Lu respected Tang Song’s wishes and neither wanted marriage nor children. But fifteen years later, their love came to an end and ended in a breakup. Only then did Xiao Lu realize in a panic—this was just another reenactment of a heterosexual illusion. She then shot fifteen shots at her own photo to express her farewell to the past fifteen years. However, for a woman, fifteen years may be too long, she gave almost most of her life for love. Xiao Lu is 44 years old. According to the doctor’s consultation information, this is the last period of a woman’s artificial insemination.
On March 3, 2012, at the “Bald Girls” exhibition, she prepared 30 albums of “What is feminism?”, and asked the audience to leave a message.And they shaved each other’s heads with Li Xinmo and Lan Jing. They used this extreme behavior to express their position and attitude as feminist artists.
Ref：
1.https://www.artda.cn/2009nianzhan-c-2460.html
2.http://en.xiaoluart.com/index.php?c=show&id=101
3.https://www.juanxucurator.com/37325373223291840065.html