Cross connection
Shuxian's project explores the cross-cultural romantic relationship between two people from different countries. The main focus of the project is to look at how society is becoming more accepting of the merging of cultures and how the culture changes by interacted influence. In China, she worked as a wedding photographer and would often make pre-wedding images. With Shuxian's experience, she adapted this commercial approach in her project and combining it with a surreal representation of each couple as one face, she highlights the similarities and differences between their cultures.
The influence of global culturalization has become a current topic over the years. Shuxian wanted to analyse the cause and process of culture-change of eastern countries, especially in China from the perspective of history and contemporary society. Therefore, the participants are couples in an intercultural relationship including her and her partner.
The idea of choosing this topic is a social concern issue and it is also fascinating. It widely covers the historical background, political change, and the influence of global culturalization. It represents this series of matters by photographing mixed couples in her project. The photomontage series is the main section of this project and represents her concept through abstract visual photographs. Because she has an art foundation, and she likes painting and decorative design, these factors interact with her photographic style. Besides, her five years of pre-wedding and wedding photography experience is an advantage to work with the couples in her project. Therefore, these beneficial factors drove her to start this project.
Based on Shuxian is also an artist, so it drives her photograph to tend to artistic style. She combined the visual research of the various artist with her ideas.
The image of a couple with different ethnic background in surrealistic style.
