source: blouinartinfo

“Between Reality and Virtuality” blurs boundaries: the conventional photographs combined with contemporary digital techniques blur the boundary between photography and mixed media, while the surreal images question the line between reality and virtuality in our everyday lives. Mi Yuming invites the viewer to question whether their thoughts are affected by this manufactured reality, what is real and what is superficial. Her images are enlarged and exaggerated, a vivid combination of real life captured through a camera lens and a digitally created virtuality. Mi’s virtual reality reveals her desire and struggle for individual existence.
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source: thecreatorsproject

Mi Yuming’s chaotic works are packed with strong feminine gestures, symbols, and imagery from modern culture. Her collages create the dizzying feeling experienced when faced with the daily assault of our fast-paced modern day information age, which Yuming naturally explains through high-impact visual stimulation.

“The worshiping and interpretation of the female figure has a long history in the development of ancient art. But now, since the female figure has been used for entertainment and commercial purposes, the respect and admiration of female beauty has disappeared. Is the development of modern society just about business and money-making programs? Without a sense of belonging and consciousness? People in the modern era just want to dance or fall asleep in the bustling, shoddily-constructed world.

To say that my inspiration came from Rongcheng is not the case, it relates more accurately to the branches and trees. Thank you for noticing that passage. I wrote that in 2010 when was I teaching. I gave the topic, “One Bunyan, One Bunyan Town” as an assignment to my students. I wanted to teach my contemporary art students to not forget about their roots while being in this colorful, visual art world or else they may end up floating around in this ever-changing information age. A bunyan tree becomes a town by sucking up the nutrients in the ground while taking root with its branches. If every contemporary art student can utilize the resources offered by this age, they can ultimately become a bunyan town. And each will look different from the other. The world and the art world should also share this notion. After passionately being involved in painting for many years, I realized that new methods of painting need to be developed and explored to fit the times.

When I encountered the video medium, I thought it was perfect but still not enough. So I kept on experimenting to find a style of my own. Ultimately, my creations fall between two- and three-dimensional images.”