DING Ding

BIOGRAPHY

Ding Ding concerns the modern girls who are under the great influence of consumption culture created by television, advertisement, and internet. Their urges of seeking beauty become excessive. They are not only superstitious about the artificial beauty piled up by the dazzling cosmetics, but also apply fashionable and monotonous facial expressions and posts, in order to dress up themselves as beautiful girls in anime. Nevertheless, what they are seeking is superficial and materialized.

In the meanwhile, exploding of information nowadays and craziness of mass media is violating the sensory world of human beings. Consumption concept has been occupied the consciousness of young Chinese generation. They follow the trend; idolize brand names and fresh fashion products. Relative to the pure domain of consciousness, they like more to indulge in enjoyment and feverish experiences of consumption. They believe in entertainments and fashion; they esteem consumption as the highest index of happiness of life. Besides, girls in the present age deeply believe that if they are patient enough, they also can have the idol faces.


           


City.Flower 2
80cm x 120cm 2007
Oil on canvas