Chen Shaoxiong (born in Shantou,Guangdong Province,1962) Lives and works in Guangzhou. He co-founded “Big Tail Elephant” in 1990 with Lin yilin, Liang Juhui. Xu Tan joined later. The aim of this group is to develop critical strategies for negotiating the rapidly changing economic and urban life in South China. Chen Shaoxiong is one of the celebrated conceptual artists in China.The strength in his work lies in highlighting conventional viewpoints of people towards daily life,and subverting these viewpoints by means of various different media.In his series works about street landscape(started from 1997), Chen Shaoxiong made series of miniature three dimensional streetscapes formed by painstaking cut-outs of items, which the artist had photographed in the streets of Guangzhou. His representation critiques the changing roles of Chinas developing urban landscape, and its attempt to catch up with the Western world. Chen Shaoxiong participated in Zone of Urgency-Venice Biennial 2003. His art pieces have been shown in such international exhibitions as P_A_U_S_E. Kwangju Biennale, South Korea,2002,Urban Creation. Shanghai Biennale, 2002;Under Construction, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, 2002;Chinese Photography Now, Art Chicago,2001; Living in Time, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin,2001;Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival ,2000;Cities on the Move 4.5.6.7, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, humlebaek, Danmsrk;Hayward Gallery, London, England; Bangkok; Kiasma,Helsinki, Finland,1999; Big Tailed Elephant, Bern, Switzerland,1998; Inside Out, PS1, New York,1998. Anti-C.S.X is the first solo exhibition of Chen Shaoxiong which will mix new pieces with some old pieces.As Chen Shaoxiong mentioned: art may be the “Safe Mode” in the system of life,when there is problem in life, people will enter the “Safe Mode” to recover systemic installation or to kill virus;when the indubitable things become unimaginable, art is proving the credibility and reliability of those originally unimaginable ideas.This exhibition will give us the unimaginable scene. Text by Artist About STREET Like a person can’t jump into a same river twice, I can’t see the same scenery while looking into the window in my house. Everything in this city is temporary: streets, buildings, shopping centers, train station, airport, transit ways, trees, road marks and etc; even the crowds. No matter permanent or temporary residents, nothing is fixed. Everything changes easily just like altering a telephone number. I try to use my photography to fix these moving objects, and then put these fixed images back to the moving backgrounds. These moments (things) either meet or by-pass each other in this world, it doesn’t really matter. I would like to replay this chaotic logic, these uncontrollable rules and its confusing magic. Just because I still have a bit of passion to this world and would like to share this passion with every single object of the world, I have to record what I have seen. As a witness myself, I would like to keep the memory of my life inside my built-up small-scale country, or to build a scenery monument for this ever changing city. Since seeing scenery at a window is a kind of tourism, my works can also be called an opposite kind (a city travelling in people, or people travelling in a city) when they are put into an exhibition space in a foreign country. Since we build a city according to some existing rules; we feel the same strangeness of our own city as foreign ones; we want to be modern; we want to join the WTO and we want everything that this world can offer, I would like my works of street images in China to be associated with Bangkok, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, New York and other big cities alike. If so, I can provide a better dream for such a globalization. Let’s fulfill this dream advanced in my small scale country! About ANTI-TERROR VARIETY When authorities in the Washington DC area were afflicted with the terrible headache of trying in vain to catch the mysterious snipers shooting at people in the street, someone suggested that pedestrians should walk in a zigzag to avoid being assaulted. When talking about issues involving the establishment of direct trade, mail and transportation connections across the Taiwan Strait, some people also suggested that airplanes should fly in a corkscrew pattern to prevent being pursued by missiles. “Will it hit?” My three-year-old daughter always asks me this question, whenever she sees an aircraft flying around a high-rise. The 9-11 pictures that she saw on television are causing her to make this association in her mind. Having watched air show maneuvers on television, I wonder if buildings could behave just as airplanes do. Anti-terror Variety is my solution to combating terrorists. Highrises could dodge aircraft hits in all sorts of different ways, without damaging airplanes carrying innocent passengers. This is the most perfect idea I could come up with to prevent and fight terrorism. For the present, no architects are able to construct such a building. I hope, however, that someday they will acquire this capability. My intention today is for my solution to dispel people’s nightmares. If, in their extreme agony, the American people have become suspicious of everything, and accuse me of looking on at their troubles with indifference, I will have nothing to say. Chen Shaoxiong