Cui Xiuwen concealed a video camera to record the activities of young women in the ladies' room of a Beijing karaoke club. She captures them unaware in candid moments as they inspect themselves in the mirror and prepare to return to the nightclub. The video explores the ambiguous status of the young women who frequent nightclubs and karaoke bars, who may be available not only for sitting or singing with clients but also for a range of sexual services.
Lives in Beijing.
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Born in Haerbin, Heilongjiang province
1990
Graduated from Northeast Normal University, Haerbin, Heilongjiang province
1996
Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Selected Exhibitions:
2001
Cross Pressures: Contemporary Photography and Video from Beijing, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland, and Finnish Museum of Contemporary Photography, Helsinki
2002
Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Film, 1990-2000, The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Run Jump Crawl Walk, East Modern Art Center, Beijing
2003
Alors, la Chine? Centre Pompidou, Paris
Peripheries Become Center, The First Prague Biennale
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