Migrant Bird Space

Luo Yang is considered the shooting star of the current Chinese photo scene. This set of cards combines essential
examples from her two work series “GIRLS” and “YOUTH”.
Since 2007 the extensive series “GIRLS” has been created, a very personal examination of the photographer with
women of her generation. Whether against the backdrop of Chinese megacities or in intimate settings in the private
environment, the young women present themselves confident and individual, but at the same time appearing
vulnerable and fragile. Apart from traditional female role models and traditional clichés, they are looking for their
way to a self-determined life in the modern, rapidly transforming China.
In the series “YOUTH”, Luo Yang has been working with young people of Generation Z since 2019, i.e. those born
in the late 1990s and around 2000. Fluid gender assignments become just as apparent as the search for individual
expression between creative staging and authentic body feeling. Luo Yang paints the sensitive picture of the urban Chinese youth in search of orientation and identity.

Took up photography in 2008, he initially started focusing on the contemporary Chinese subcultures, the idea of the body as a weapon, and the reality as the foundation of existence, constantly trying to reject definitions and labels. In recent years, Gulu’s goal has been to restore the identity of those who have been “materialized” by socie-ty; to do so, he employs different techniques, such as photography, texts, handwork, and painting. In his latest solo exhibition "Suddenly Retreating Desire" Li Xiang en-courage young people from all over the world to show their true self in front of the camera. He furthermore reconstructs by hand the reality depicted in the Polaroids taken, breaking the limitations of the square and blurring the boundary between pho-tography and painting. As an artist whose main theme is the body, Gulu argues it is not an object, but the embodiment of emotion; it has nothing to do with beauty and ugliness, nudity is freedom.
Born in 1983 in China, Li Xiang graduated from Beijing Film Academy, majoring in Film and Television Advertising.

Lin Zhipeng, who works under the alias 223, is a key figure inthe generation of Chinese artists to have emerged onto theinternational stage since the turn of the millennium. His work.often made in collaboration with friends and shared on socialmedia, speaks of the desires and freedoms sought by hisgeneration. 223 balances preparation and improvisation in hiswork, often bringing his signature textiles, fabrics andcarefully chosen objects into the environments in which heworks. For his exhibition at The Walther Collection, 223proposed images which speak both of physical presence andthe domestic realm. In both works containing bodies and in hismore recent still life practice, 223 reveals his sensitivity to thebeauty and expressive potential of the everyday, transformedthrough his unique vision.
Sight, sound, objects, they all swing like velvet. They are aconcoction of vulnerability, sensitivity, flirtatiousness,ambiguous desire and untamable skins. Everyone is focusedon their own affect, while navigating in a secretly connectednetwork.”