Preface

Nathalie Daoust, Shen Yi, Zhou Hongbin and Zhou Qing are all young, women artists. They created their works in different places, from Switzerland, Britain, France to China's Henan Province and Beijing, far apart and with obvious geographical differences. Besides, there is also a great deal of diversity among their ways of creation. Nathalie accents the nature with far fetched human behavior, tactfully, skillfully and beautifully. Shen Yi is tirelessly playing with all kinds of old fashioned cheap cameras, trying to break through all kinds of rules in photography for a personal happy land. Zhou Hongbin uses the strangled creatures in deep water to restage the fairy rabbits in the heaven. Zhou Qing’s viewpoints linger like lemurs around the neglected corners. Their works appear colorful and pleasant but pervade misery and death. They are ambiguous but fluent and lovely. Coincidently with a surreal attitude, the four of them are pursuing, at the same time a dreamscape.