GIRLS

Luo Yang,GIRLS

Luo Yang
GIRLS

Photographs: Luo Yang

Text: Eva Morawietz

Publisher: Lammerhuber

168 pages

Pictures: 85

Year: 2017

Comments: Hardcover, printed linen, 27,5 × 22,5 cm, text in English and Mandarin

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Luo Yang’s GIRLS belong to a part of contemporary China that is rarely taken note of in the West. Her portraits depict an emerging Chinese youth culture that defies imposed expectations and stereotypes: GIRLS are badass and self-aware with a supreme sense of cool, yet also insecure, vulnerable and torn. Underlying tensions and ambivalent emotions lend friction to Luo’s images and deny a conclusive reading. Above all, her work is a testament to her subjects’ individuality. It explores themes of youth and femininity while challenging traditional beliefs about Chinese women. GIRLS thus also reflect a shifting mindset with regard to concepts of femininity and identity in modern China.


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