An Expectation or a New Miracle by Huang Xiaoliang (June 16, 2010) 
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Introduction by Three Shadows Photography Art Centre
The 2010 Three Shadows Photography Award is a juried competition that selects artists that display a spirit of individuality and artistic potential from the emerging trends of Chinese photography. Through professional production, criticism, exhibition, and publishing, the award introduces the newest achievements of Chinese contemporary photography to a broad audience. The juried competition is open to photographers of Chinese descent dedicated to the creation of contemporary photography art in China or abroad regardless of age.
On January 22, 2010, the Three Shadows Photography Award committee made their preliminary selections. Twenty artists were chosen as semifinalists out of more than two hundred applicants.
The final results of the competition were announced on April 17, 2010, after the opening of the first Caochangdi PhotoSpring. The Three Shadows Photography Award invited a five-member international jury to China, consisting of Les Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival Director François Hébel, Museum of Modern Art Photography Curator Eva Respini, art critic Karen Smith, Japanese art critic Kotaro Iizawa, and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre Founder RongRong.
Zhang Xiao received this year’s Three Shadows Photography Award, Wang Huan received the Shiseido Prize and Huang Xiaoliang, presented here, received the Tierney Fellowship.
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An Expectation or a New Miracle is my series related to memory and yearning for the future. Many things from my memory appear in these works; these things are from scenes that I remember.
The works are all on a line, like a platform for my feelings, where wild weeds and modern things overlap, uncovering some tiny specks of hope in a sad situation.
All of this emerges from the shadows – shadows can be seen, but the thing itself cannot, as if it were the principle of time.
It is like the reverse image of yourself in water, which allows you to examine yourself in the mist.
Slight sadness is an absolutely necessary attitude towards past memories.
Desolate lands will forever be full of both focused and distant thoughts, and here we perform and play at life.
The transitory things of childhood are all that we hope to make happen but cannot attain today.
When our consciousness floats from the present back to the past and our experiences are stalled today, then, the impulse to return to the past is also a longing search for happiness.
The power of this hope is my motivation to create, thus, my creative goals today.
In my memory, they are becoming increasingly important. They are not symbols, they are hope!
Huang Xiaoliang (1985) lives and works in Changsha, China.
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