Gao Ling
Gao Ling was born in 1980, used to live in London, currently is living in the SF Bay area, and Shanghai, and Hai Nan. Walking between performance, photography, installation, and social platform activities, Ling’s works often have a sense of gameplay and humor, while exploring issues such as femininity, the environment, and humanity. Ling’s work can be thought of as social practices, and her objects have been collected by international museums, art galleries, and other institutions.
The Big Mist
The Big Mist, 2013-present, was launched by Gao Ling in January
2013 at which time Bejing was shrouded in smog and Asia was in turn adversely affected by China’s worsening urban air pollution. The Big Mist seeks to creates a global archive of “selfies” that playfully engages our contemporary attitude to air pollution.
The project took the form of an open call, through social media, for creative photographs responding to the theme of environmental air pollution in Asia. Sites such as Facebook, Weibo, and Douban were used. Several dozen submissions from around the world, from Bejing to Hong Kong, Kathmandu to Berlin, London, to Madrid, were received. An aim of the Big Mist is for participants to use performance and humour in the photographic form as a challenge to over-industrialization and the pollution it brings.
Since 2016, as an extension of The Big Mist Gao ling began to create the wearable sculpture series, Organic Masks. She uses daily objects such as tea filters, record disks, gloves and brought them to Chinese Parks, and streets to engage other subjects resulting in another photography series, The Big Mist Beauty Map.
Gao Ling has exhibited her work
