周啸虎（1960年生于江苏省常州市）是中国当代艺术家中最早尝试把观念艺术与雕塑、影像、动画、互动技术相结合的艺术家之一。他常将人们的生存境遇和以媒体现成品的再生产为特征的信息作为创作材料，并通过戏剧性的方式打破之间的固有联系。

从早期取材于新闻事件和虚构的故事陶土动画装置系列到2009年在长征空间的个展“集训营”以及比翼艺术中心的个展“军演营——10.18营救”，本次展览呈现的是最新的一批陶土雕塑动画装置作品，动画和场景雕塑之间既可以并置，保持空间和时间上的并行，也可独立存在：动画的单帧画面在时间中相对独立和强化，正好与断句般抽出的场景雕塑共构起一种关于现象或表象、物证或伪证的关系。

他的作品曾在美国纽约现代艺术馆（MOMA）、英国泰特利物浦美术馆、瑞士的伯尔尼美术馆、上海美术馆，以及奥地利维也纳的路德维希基金会现代艺术馆等地展出；参加了2006年澳大利亚布里斯班亚太三年展、2004年西班牙塞维利亚国际艺术双年展等。作品曾被2000年上海双年展和2004年“过去与未来之间：来自中国的新摄影与影像”展所收录。

This exhibition presents the latest series of ceramic Word Chains by China''s leading new media artist Zhou Xiaohu. In the last two decades Zhou Xiaohu (b. 1960, Jiangsu Province) has pushed the boundaries of sculpture, video, animation and interactive media. Through theatrical narrations, his work examines the disguised spaces between observed living situations and their mediated realities as told through popular media.

Word Chains consists of five pairs of sculpture and video that address voluntary and involuntary situations of misunderstanding, forgetfulness, education, and reproduction. Zhou ponders upon the similarities between video editing and building sentences as he seeks to surpass the logic of literal narration and allow the complexity and multiplicity of perceived realities. The videos are painstakingly shot frame to frame through slow adjustments of miniature ceramic sets. Each set is now presented frozen in time and placed adjacent to its running film, thereby creating an overlapping sense of surreal space and time.

Zhou Xiaohu’s work has been extensively exhibited locally and abroad, including the seminal exhibitions ‘Shanghai Biennale 2000’ and ‘Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China’ in International Center of Photography, New York, USA (2004). His work has been presented at prestigious institutions as Tate Liverpool, UK; Kunst Museum, Bern, Switzerland; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China and the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria.