Xu Heng now lives and works in Beijing, and is a professional artist, photographer, designer and producer. 20 10 has been the visual art director of the Youth Dance Troupe of Beijing Dance Academy.
Main works: 2005-2008 life series, 2006-2007 red series, 2007-20 10 white series.
Exhibition: Ten Years Exposed Central Academy of Fine Arts and China Contemporary Image Exhibition, Beijing (2010); Xu Heng's solo exhibition, F2 Gallery, Beijing (2010); PHOTOKINA Visual Gallery, Cologne, Germany (2008); "attention! Contemporary Photography in China ",Art Museum, Victoria, Spain (2007); "Thirteen Don't Depend", F2 Gallery, Beijing (2006); Award-winning works exhibition of the global competition between teachers and students of photography colleges of the International Association for Image Education, USA, Canada and Australia (2005-07); Post-Electronic Image Exhibition, Masderby Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2005); Participation —— Pingyao International Photography Festival (2004), exhibition of teachers and students majoring in photography in Central Academy of Fine Arts.
It seems difficult to use a good word to describe Xu Heng's artistic creation. His conceptual video works touch on the topics of gender, sexual orientation and the relationship between men and women in China today. However, through the appearance of his works, his works imply his deep spiritual demands. Since 2003, Xu Heng has borrowed herself as a model in all her works. In these works, he dresses up as different female characters and poses different female postures. In his recent works, he added more elements of post-digital video production to help him express his artistic ideas.
Xu Heng's first work with the theme of "gender role transformation" was at the end of the second year of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2003. Titled "Iiiiiiii", Xu Heng appeared in the same living room seven times as a young woman, and at the same time, the artist sat in the left back corner of the image with her own image and looked directly at the camera. This shooting experience is completely impromptu, and it is also an extremely exciting personal experience for the artist himself. Since "333", this work has opened a brand-new world of artistic creation for Xu Heng, which has also become an important turning point in his creation.
In the next three years, Xu Heng turned his impromptu experiments into carefully planned artistic creation plans, and he also changed from a simple artist to a multi-artist identity integrating fashion designers, stylists and models. In 2006, his work "My 17 Front and Back" was the result of his unremitting efforts and creation. In this work, Xu Heng plays several female roles: a clever traditional girl, a girl in uniform, a performance girl and a ballet dancer. Through the role-playing of the artist, the work reflects the typical female image of women in today's patriarchal society.
From 2007 to 20 10, Xu Heng spent another three years creating a series of new works "Shell". At the same time, the artist also chose more refined visual language to express his aesthetic concept. Different from the simple pose in previous works, with the deepening and complexity of the ideas behind Xu Heng's works, he began to use more digital imaging technology to help him realize his ideas. In the new work, his own female image appears, and at the same time, the images of male and female artificial models are added to the work. The new series of works reveals the incompleteness of individuals as human beings-men or women. This desire for integrity is reflected in our daily life as the mutual attraction of the opposite sex. Xu Heng brought this pursuit of wholeness into his artistic creation. In his works, he is complete, both physically and mentally. Artists expect to present more diverse perspectives to the audience through their works, and also hope to help them cross the surface and see the inner spiritual essence through their works.