-Peng! Peng!-be careful!There flies bullets from the pictures and the beautiful women soldiers target you with guns in their hands. Everywhere are their strong and charming figures, from the city to the villages, where they want to occupy. The generation brought up by the mass culture is really strong or just seemingly strong? A sense of weakness and confusion is vividly revealed in the dynamic pictures by the artists. However, invasion has been an inertial force, and cultural wars happen like daily games, what is more, intense war has deprived them of the time of reflection.The soldiers of mass culture have landed, or they are breaking through the window. The war has started and nobody is able to escape from the battle field. As the bullet has been installed, everybody must make their own decision, whether to yield or to resist.The series of Employ Army by Xiaomi, like a bullet, hit us through the strongly visual effects. The viewpoints from the bottom to the top highlight the body and gesture of the employ army and the erasing of the shadows make the whole picture brighter and fuller, naturally providing a feeling of overwhelming for the picture. artworkNevertheless, looking into the unyielding pictures, another perplexing sense can be found that is a little of sadness under the beauty. Stare at their eyes, please.And you will find out inner weakness and uneasiness under the fit muscle. Maybe noone is willing to be in the battle field, and it is just the power of custom. Through the particular fine sense and the understanding of life depth, Xiaomi reveals the moving emotion behind the mental covering and meanwhile, offers them the possibility and strength to dismantle the weapons and change their attitudes. The virility and week and gloomy sentiment gentleness are technically integrated into one picture; it is which that makes the audience attracted, willing to be captured by the pictures.You will be shot by the shootsi of Xiaomi, because that the seemingly super real pictures actually reflect the deep reality of our life. As the acceleration of the globalization, various kinds of culture penetrate due to the international capital cooperation. In order to achieve the biggest profit, the international capitals conduct a more secret promotion in the name of culture. In modern society, to a great sense, people define themselves in accordance to the goods they consume. Therefore, when the goods are closely connected with one living way, we will frequently and continuously consume them. The mass culture, mainly characterized by hamburgers has become the spiritual food of the new generation before we took notice of it. In the cultural war without smoke, we can not tell who will be attacked by the employed army. Artists sensitively doubt the dilemma and put forward such a question: how to confront such a challenge and restart to create our new culture? The intensive question comes like a bullet into everybody’s deep heart, arousing a thinking storm.What is interesting is the artists choose cameras to express their enthusiasms and profound reflection. The reason why she chooses camera is not only because she majored in camera department in the school of fine arts, but also because she sensitively senses the similarity between the theme she wants to express and the camera as a medium. We are in a highly commercial society which is also filled with changing pictures. Or rather, it is a society of “Simulations”, an item by French philosopher Boddalia. What attract consumers often are the pictures about the goods rather than the goods themselves. Everyday, there are a sea of pictures come into our mind, give us psychological hints, which thereafter changes our way of behavior and thinking pattern. Pictures, due to their seemingly real characteristic, become the most important way to promote the fast culture. However, we shall never forget that behind the one-eye camera, there are people’s eyes and minds, which are critical in deciding the appearance of the pictures in our mind. artworkIn this sense, Xiaomi takes the illusive art pictures as bullets to confront and reveal the illusive pictures in the seemingly real pictures. In fact, a large number of the artists pay more attention to and adopt cameras as an express medium on the increase. That is because in this pictoral time, images are the easiest way to be accepted and the sharpest weapon for criticism. When people turn on the TV or other media, they feel they have entered the real world, but the artists warn us that this is just an illusion. Through the camera of the artists, we notice the dark corner intensely hidden by the mass media and the cruel side behind the colorful side. At the same time, they intend to create the effect of absurdity to cast irony on the seemingly real pictures, therefore to achieve the deep reality.People unfamiliar with Xiaomi will all be astounded by her violent picture, a total opposition to her gentle appearance. Different from the current writings that are concentrated in personal trivial and sensitiveness, her series of Employed Army not only embodies a profound criticism on the society but also denotes young people’s unique vagueness, confidence in creating a bright future, and momentum. The artists have gestured to speak out their answer loudly no matter what responds people make to the cultural crisis. That is, not to follow blindly, not to yield, but to wage through our own way, judge independently, and create a vigorous youth culture to fight against it. There seems no hind of ending of the wars in the pictures while the battle of life is beginning soon. The artist smiles with confidence, who want to make arts as the bullets to turn over the rule of fast culture and use the pictures to arouse a thinking storm in the audience. Therefore, if you want to go to the display of Mi Yuming, be careful of the bullets!artwork