The word “Her” is commonly referred to as a third person perspective of a woman.  But before the 20^th century, there was no such word as “She” or “Her” which referred to woman in Chinese dictionary; as the Chinese character of “He” can also means “She”, and “Him” can also means “Her.”  The closest text to the word “Her” is “Sister” before the 20^th century. It is not until after the 20^th century, when the rises of woman’s right movement, the word “Her” in Chinese was created.  Therefore the word “Her” in Chinese bears many layers of meaning: the liberation of women and the evidence of respect in female.  The name of the exhibition “Her”, although in general referred to as the images of women, shows the differences in ideas and themes of women by different generations of artists, and the role of women as visual symbol throughout the artists’ creative process.

 In this exhibition, although the main theme is female, the ways different artists describe and illustrate them aesthetically and visually are quite distinguishable.  The varieties of selections of ages and stages of women present different angles of perspective of female. The characteristics and attitudes of the persons, the beauties or charms of the characters and the subtle emotions and delicate changes of the facial expressions all effortlessly show through the theme of “Her.”