Stealing #1, 2022, Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth, Inkjet print, 60 × 80 cm
Stealing #2, 2022, Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth, Inkjet print, 60 × 80 cm
Stealing #3, 2022, Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth, Inkjet print, 60 × 80 cm
In this narrative work of a father holding his child from the starting line, he pushes forward, tense and focused. In each image, he runs faster and faster, leaping out of the frame. Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge, who looked at time and motion within the frame, Ou wants to show the process and narrative drive that was different from his work. The process of men running is reminiscent of the poetic aspect of evolution (recalling historical diagrams of the ape becoming man).
In this group of photographs, viewers can imagine a pregnant woman going through gestation and then man stealing the baby. Men of the species take the labour out of the women for their own reward.