Xiao Han is a London and Shanghai-based photographic artist. His lens embodies his thinking and imagination of other individuals and their social relations. In his photography, various relationships between environment and human often emerge as visual elements. The statements are his reflections on the mediocre life, but also the resistance to the established order-triviality, stagnation and chaos are all re-integrated. He is focused on the relationship between individuals and the environment, coexisting and confronting each other.
‘It’s not what you were thinking‘
As a non-believer, I observe the current living conditions and social status of muslim women from personal perspective. The strong cultural shock during observation process made me realize that this is from stereotypes due to a lack of understanding of contemporary muslim culture. I tried to use myself as an example to narrate and reflect on how individual subconscious judgements and perception of things can be extreme stereotypes that are disconnected from the current context. It sounds like the relationship between Epistemology and ontology, which we should dialectically think the essence of the issue.