Gao Qiang born in 1962 to Jinan
Gao Zhen born in 1956 to Jinan

Since more than 20 years, the brothers Gao form together a family brilliant artistic couple of which the rich stretched work to describe all the paradoxes of China in the middle of the mutation. True leaders, and in spite of repeated censorships from authorities, they are the attentive observers and distrusting the transformations that distress their country. They describe the life of Peking and daily difficulty of the existence of the men in allegories humanists that they in scene under forms théatrale and the take in photo.

These pictures approach also of the taboos anchored in the Chinese corporation as the bareness, homosexuality, promiscuity or the public effusions. The brothers Gao escape all cynisme and to all form of judgement. they look at the men as scientists observe to the microscope the bacilli to evolve and are satisfied to reproduce their gestures in the chorégraphiant. Powerless creators, they wonder with compassion on these cursed ones of the existence, workers in exile, hurt and blinded by the utopian lights of the work-sites, and that embrace themselves nude for an eternity instant when China will kiss itself. Their work is part of numerous special and public collections.