Song Yuanyuan was born in 1981 and graduated from the Photography Department of Lun Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. Learning and research experiences on photography contributes to his ability to perceive and process images. Furthermore, it helps him face the world independently through a self-conscious attitude towards images. After graduation, he started to work on paintings. Passing through different types of painting schema and techniques of expression, he has developed mature approaches on shaping and color, also shown exuberant creativity. In many of his recent works, he investigated from the perspective of daily life the chaotic scenario in spaces left by human activities, e.g. a room in fitment, a meeting room or a living room. Sometimes multiple images are formed through his approach of “picture-in-picture”. In many of the works, a daily and realistic scenario is maintained, while the depicted objects also show a state of “ready-made” as of the Dadaism. It unfolds a situation that the real and the absurd are unified in life. Song Yuanyuan’s paintings represent an artistic tendency of the young generation, e.g. they attach importance to the realistic painting techniques in a traditional sense, meanwhile apply contemporary visual experiences and concept to the daily and the realities.

- Zhang Li, Nov. 2010