Min Wang

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I dont like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself Diane Arbus.My work can perhaps best be described as a steadfast celebration of things as they are, sometimes shocking in its purity. The goal of my photography is to capture moments which encompass the "real" lives and personas of my subjects, whether they be family units or more solitary figures living on the fringes of society. As far as possible I aim to be the invisible photographer, capturing those unmasked states of being where the subjects are at their moments of uncoordinated and unconscious repose. As such these photograhps never sought to portray some kind of shocking or gruesome aspect of reality, but the honesty of human emotion, away from the realm of rigid self-consciousness which we popularly hold up as the image of normality. The photographic approach focuses on simplicity, yet questions the meaning of the word "simple"; this collection seeks to expose the synonymity of light and dark, joy and pain, stark and bright in each moment of daily life.

Goldsmiths University, MAUniversity for the Creative Arts, BA

*‘Kunst ist Kapital’ Ausstellung at the westward, Leipzig December 2012
*‘Spielfeld’ Ausstellung at the Eishaus, Leipzig September 2011
*2010Hot Spring Project, Group exhibition, Japan
*8+8 Same Bed Different Dreams, Group exhibition, Nanjing, China
*Atelier bemster postcard competition participate as guest artist, Tokyo, Japan
*Absorb Art Summer Opening Exhibition at Absorb Art Studios, London
*Mayday, The Foundry, London
*2007-2008 Works represented by Aristao Gallery, London
*Tibet Daily Life Series exhibited at AOP (The Association of
Photographers) Gallery,
*LondonTibet Daily Life Series collected in AOP (The Association of
*Photographers) book Photography Awards 2007, London
*2006 Group exhibition at Oxo Tower Barge House Gallery 06, London
*2005 Group exhibition at The Well, Free Range 05, London