Problematic GIFs - No Problem At All
Miao Ying
苗颖
Production date
2016
Object Detail
Media
GIF video (colour, silent), LCD screens, lightbox
Measurements
298 x 241 x 8 cm
15 min 10 sec
15 min 10 sec
Notes
A compilation of popular GIFs is blocked and rendered incomprehensible by a central blocked section, as if the image had failed to load, perhaps censored by the ‘Great Firewall’. Like a number of young post-Internet Chinese artists, including Lin Ke, aaajiao, Lu Yang, and Guan Xiao, Miao Ying creates work using the abundance of online information available in China—and, in Miao’s case, out of the negative space left by a restricted Chinese internet. She describes herself as living ‘on the internet’ and explains her relationship with the censored Chinese online space as a kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
Accession number
2016.144
