Artist Statement
In “Going Home,” Mu Ge’s photographs have an almost dreamlike quality, but through the nostalgia one sees the immensity of transition, displacement, disappearance and searching. Underneath the upheaval, Ge searches for hope, and throughout the body of work one senses the movement of time: past, present and future seem to simultaneously exist in many of the frames
In “Ash,”we miss out on finding our own relations to the things we are looking at. To Muge‘s eyes, nature is full of traces of time and history
Process Statement
I use a 4x5 view camera and a 5X7inch. My photographs are B & W Gelatin Silver Print
Muge was born and grew in Chongqing, China. He graduated from Sichuan Normal University with a degree in Broadcasting and Television Directing, and worked as photographer, photo editor and lecturer after graduation. He has held solo exhibitions at Zen Photo Gallery in Tokyo and Anastasia Photo Gallery in New York and has participated in Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography at the Katonah Museum of Art in New York. He was nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award in 2011, selected as a Juror's Pick for the 2012 Daylight Photo Awards, awarded the Dali International Photography Festival Photography Award and selected as First Edition 2012 Hey Hot Shot. His photographs have been featured in publications such as the New York Times, EYEMAZING, Le Monde, FOTO8 andChinese Photography. Muge's work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Ontario Toronto Canada.
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