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"Lin Jingjing's work ""Nobody Knows I was there, Nobody Knows I was Not There: Public Memory is an impressive panel of 88 photographs, each one measuring 46 by 38 centimeters (18 by 14 3/8 inches). The photos themselves resemble black and white prints of familiar moments throughout one's life, from current events to film stills, with various solid colors poured in to wash out the whitespace. From afar, the piece serves as a collective, somewhat blurred compilation of famous memories stored in one's head, shaken out onto a large canvas for visual consumption.A closer look, however, reveals a modern-day Impressionist twist, as select portions of photographic subjects are actually neatly stitched through with thread, obscured by tiny dashes forming horizontal lines. They represent the idea of how the public recalls, visualizes and even distorts memories over time, and that those fleeting events eventually succumb to color blindness and loss of detail. Internet immortality aside, there is a bit of a chilling realization when one deduces that this inability to remember 100 percent of publicly-known events could also figure into private personal experiences as time passes."

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Lin Jingjing is a conceptual visual artist whose work deals primarily with social-political themes. She is known for the wide range of approaches in her art, explores the depths of social and personal identity in the context of modern society, often examining themes such as confusion and quest, existence and absence, constraint and resistance through a lens of paradox. Of particular focus is how individuals define themselves amongst the effects of the outside world, vis-à-vis culture, politics, history, and the economy. Her artwork spans performance, installation, painting, mixed media, video, sound, LED lights. The surreal effect created via this method immerses the viewers into another consciousness. Jingjing 's works have been exhibited in major public museums and galleries, including de Sarthe, Hong Kong; Song Zhuang Art Museum in Beijing; Residency Unlimited(RU), New York; Neues Kunstforum, Cologne, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Beijing; Museo sin muros - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mall Plaza Vespucio, Santiago, Chile, Museo sin muros - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mall Plaza Trebol, Concepción, Chile; Whitebox Art Center, Beijing; Magee Art Gallery, Madrid. She has also exhibited in group exhibitions worldwide: Red Gate Gallery, Beijing; Long Museum, Shanghai; Right View Art Museum, Beijing; Third Biennale Italy-China, Turin; Galerie Herold/Künstlerhaus Güterabfertigung, Bremen /Germany; OV Gallery, Shanghai;Tree Art Museum, Beijing, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University, Philadelphia; Long De Xuan Contemporary Art Center, Beijing; Cruzando el horizonte: Exposición de Arte Contemporáneo de China, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile etc. Lin Jingjing currently lives and works in New York, USA, and Beijing, China. www.jingjinglin.com

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