XIE CAOMIN

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Still Image#138-Daharm Chakra oil on canvas 72"x96" 2008

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Since 2000, I have produced a series of paintings called ˇ°Still Imageˇ±. ˇ°Still Imageˇ± is not painting mimicking screens, but the metonymy between different images.? Image in screen not only give us disordered and impermanency experiences, it also offers different profiles of the image debris in the stream of time.? ˇ°Still Imageˇ± is the suspension in the process when image transforms from one kind of destruction to the other. The image producing is the metonymy of destruction. That is why I always is obsessed in painting Modern ruins. However, the sense of the image producing is not consisted in what it has produced, but in the process of producing as such reality.