AGE OF INNOCENCE | 纯真年代

Taking the opportunity to participate in the exhibition, I organized these photographs taken from 2019 to early 2022 as well as some of my essays. To my surprise, these moments, improvised and extracted from the concrete, tiny, everyday life, seem to establish a lot of connections with each other, constructing a narrative for me. And contrasted with my own journals, some of them even seem like prophecies come true. 

During this time, photography almost served me as a form of therapy: the act of framing and pressing the shutter helped to briefly eliminate that anxious feeling of not being in the present, and was also a tool to help me find the small meanings in an ordinary life. 

Therefore, in the final curatorial plan, I divided all of these texts into "questions" and "references," using a pattern of questions followed by reference answers.

Some of my audience told me how they were moved by the way the photos came together and gave a documentary-like storytelling. At the same time, my early 20's had finally seen a closing of the loop, and new beginnings. This work was thus an important inspiration for myself, on how the power of narrative in our mind influence real life, and that how we can always rewrite our own narrative.