Culture and Globalisation in Wang Qingsong’s Photography

Abstract

This paper concerns artworks by the aforementioned artist, who was born in 1966 in Daqing (Heilongjiang Province). His art depicts a reflection on the relation between culture and globalisation, as well as the impact of globalisation on culture, especially Chinese. Globalisation is the abolition of the spatial distance and the introduction of the world into a state of mobility, as described by Grzegorz Dziamski – Polish art critic and historian. Mobility is the ethnical, technological, financial, ideological and media including images providing different narratives. But how has the artist illustrated his attitude? What kind of artistic strategy has he used?