Pixy Liao (1979) was born and raised in Shanghai, and currently lives in New York City. She holds an MFA in photography from University of Memphis. Her photographs, sculptures and videos explore, with humor and bright colors, the issue of identity and genre, and question the conventions and stereotypes around womanhood, relationships and couples.
Aged between 22 and 38, the ten nominees of the Jimei x Arles Discovery Award 2018 are a mirror on today's China, with their focus on topics including the couple, intimacy, gender identities, self-representation, collective memory, public and private urban space, media and social networks, mass production and consumption, globalized exchanges...