…There are two types of art in contemporary times. One is art that transforms the “aesthetic object” into a medium, and the so-called work is only an embodied medium of thought; Another one is the art that follows the identification of “aesthetic object” and cooks according to “recipe”. The content of the “recipe” is what has been already disenfranchised by the “disenfranchisement of art, Duchamp” (different genres and isms, figurative non-figurative, abstract, expressionism, etc…).

Obviously, An Xiao tong’s work is embodied in the context of the first type. Her works are in many kinds of media: industrial products, daily necessities, consumer goods, ready-made materials, numerous and manifold. Different media of works in different languages carry their own cognition, experience, thinking, and analysis of social ecology. In the wilderness of the big data popularity, “I am, therefore I think”.