Let the Hundred Flowers Bloom.

APT artist Mei Xian Qiu is showing a provocative contemporary photography Solo Exhibition, exploring fictional vistas in lieu of documenting reality.

ionally acclaimed photographer Mei Xian Qiu, using carefully staged -- yet appearing completely natural - subjects of varying ethnicity according to where she is in her research, she juxtaposes assumptions about ethnicity and custom with Pan Asian, Chinese, and Western motifs. The result is at once prescient and provoking.

Mei’s photographic series, in their premises – hyped to the point of absurdity – and their depictions – deliriously saturated with sensuous and exotic touches -- amplify, distort, and (thus) mock the myriad stereotypes to which Mei herself could be, and sometimes has been, subject.