About the Art
“Two Perspectives: Mother and Daughter” is a two-screen video that explores the artist’s first motherhood and her daughter’s early childhood. All the footage was shot in 2020 when the child was between 2-3 years old. It was also when social distancing and wearing masks became a daily routine. In this video, two experimental films are placed side by side to show two perspectives of a mother and a child through three pairs of their daily life sequences. These sequences work in pairs as they share the same length, start and finish simultaneously.
About the Artist
Xiaoya Liang received her bachelor’s degree in Journalism at East China Normal University in Shanghai and found herself interested in photography as a tool to capture people’s everyday moments. As an undergraduate, she worked for a lifestyle magazine and a photo agency for a short period of time and realized that there was much more to learn and explore before she settled on what to do for the future. She became a graduate student at Emerson College in the Film and Media Art program, all while learning to understand childhood and to be a parent at the same time as making art.