LIGGU

People who do not exist

Seek common ground while reserving differences

This series of works are inspired by the photos I shot for people's identity cards. Although everybody is so distinctive from each other, they seems the same to me. They are all strangers. So I was trying to create a series of newfaces by recombine the components of the faces that already exist, and make people believe that the newly created faces truly exist too.I greatly reduce the characteristics of the skin; make the texture more unified and easier for replacement. I clear all the hair, eyebrows and eyelashes.I delete all the things that could reveal people's desire. I want to create the only nature itself, just like what we thought about the essence of things.I want to make the audience to believe what we see, to judge what we see and then suddenly figure out that the basis of our judgment about existence is false. The cognitive biases make the differences of our opinions. Exist or not exist, people who do not exist are intertwined in our world, the interchange of man and woman, the disappearance of the features, the meaningless becomes true existence. They are the non-existence, but we could be them. We could only seek common ground while reserving differences. What's more, I simulate the names of the new faces by using the coding of the original photos to create the impression that these created faces seem to truly exist.