Born 1960 in Chongqing, Tian Taiquan graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1988. His work tackles metaphysical issues of life and death poetically, yet skeptically through the use of photographic technology. Taking politically and culturally significant imagery as his setting, Tian’s fictional reconstruction of historical environments establishes a tone of authority, telling the viewer this is a factual image; this is the truth.