MIXED MAZE: Liu Jin
28 November 2008 -20 January 2009, the Red Mansion Foundation gallery, London
Paradise Lost, 2007

Liu Jin 2007, Lost Paradise No. 4, C- print, 130 x 177 cm, 1/ 5. Read review

Liu Jin was born in 1971 in Jiangsu province and graduated in 1995 from the Department of Arts and Crafts, Jiangsu Xuzhou Engineering Institute. Through his latest series, Paradise Lost, Liu Jin engages the viewer in a tentative discourse on the growing unease over rapid economical and social developments in China. The concept behind the imagery is courageous and challenging; to see so many Chinese women willing to perform the story of Paradise Lost and the consequential nudity indicates, according to one view, that many of the taboos and traditional restrictions facing them are relaxing as China becomes more receptive to the West and its ideals.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2006 The Story of Youth, F2 Gallery, Beijing.
  • Ascending Angel, George Michell Gallery, Shanghai

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2008 Fabricating Image from History, ChinaBlue Gallery, Beijing
  • Hetero-Imagery, 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing
  • Image Dynamics, 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing

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