Li Jun "Trapped 2 #6" (2006), C-Print. © m97 & the artist. Courtesy of m97 Gallery

SHANGHAI, CHINA.-m97 Gallery presents "Trapped", a solo photography exhibition of large color portraits by Chengdu-based photographer Li Jun. Li Jun's new "Trapped 2" color photographs are an extension from his first body of black-and-white portraits ("Trapped"), where the photographer documented the isolation and aspirations of amateur Sichuan Opera performers, often with characters in full dress exiting backstage, bringing a fleeting sense of emotion to the photographer's works and the lives of his subjects. Li Jun's "Trapped 2" color photographs further explores the sentiment and isolation of the individual trapped within the many layers of society and the human condition. Unlike other approaches to portraiture, Li Jun's photographs do not portray the expression of the face, but focus on the body language of his subjects to bring the viewer a more estranged sense of physical, emotional or psychological isolation and entrapment.
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