Picture of perfection

Chen Man, a fashion photographer in China, is holding her first solo exhibition in Britain. Her images play with the juxtaposition of old and new, real and imaginary, ordinary and ideal.

She frequently uses modern city landscapes and historical buildings as the backdrop for her images and mixes it with street culture, animation, sci-fi and pop references.

Her images are often heavily manipulated and involve painstaking and complex layers of post-production. The hyper-real aesthetic of her images alludes to a desire for unobtainable perfection.

Her rise coincides with the emergence of a consumer culture in China and the desire for luxury consumer goods. The power and poignancy of her work lies in her ability to understand people's desires and to visualize them through her striking images.

A role model for the post-1980 generation, her images capture the personalities and attitudes of a new generation of Chinese.

Date: Feb 10-April 7

Venue: Chinese Arts Center, Market Buildings, Manchester

Website: www.chinese-arts-centre.org