Travel abroad and taking photographs takes a very important role in her life, so far she has visited more than 40 countries in the world.
Xiao Yang’s main focus is on night photography, urban exploration, and light painting. Combining the three, she creates surreal works of art that look like scenes from science fiction. She’s especially drawn to abandoned buildings and concrete monuments, places that are “empty and eerily quiet at night in darkness.”
While visiting Balkan region, she created an outstanding collection of photographs based on mostly abandoned monuments of former Yugoslavia, and named it “Illusion in Ruins”.
Check out her artistic approach to these concrete era monuments:
Memorial Park SumariceMemorial Complex Stratiste, SerbiaMonument to the Revolution of the people of Moslavina, Podgaric, CroatiaSea of Clouds at Tjentiste War Memorial, Bosnia and HerzegovinaMonument to Fallen Soldiers, Kosmaj, SerbiaSusnjar Memorial Complex, Bosnia and HerzegovinaPopina Monument, SerbiaPetrova Gora Monument, CroatiaAbandoned Hotel Europa, Otesevo, MacedoniaBroken Wings, Sumarice Memorial Park, SerbiaKragujevac, Sumarice Memorial Park, SerbiaKozara, Monument to the Revolution, Bosnia & HerzegovinaJasenovac Memorial (Stone Flower), CroatiaMakedonium, Krusevo, Macedonia.Makljen,Monument to the Battle of the Wounded, Bosnia & HerzegovinaMausoleum of Struggle and Victory, Cacak, SerbiaMemorial to the Fallen of the Lješanska Nahija Region, Barutana, MontenegroMonument to Fallen fighters of WWII Niksic, MontenegroMonument to Freedom or The Flower of Freedom, Gevgelija, MacedoniaMonument to the Prespa Council, Oteshevo, MacedoniaMonument to the Revolution of the people of Moslavina, Podgaric, CroatiaAbandoned Hotel Igman, Sarajevo, Bosnia & HerzegovinaGrmec, Monument to Korcanica, Bosnia & HerzegovinaFreedom Hill Monument, Bosnia&HerzegovinaThe Circles, Sumarice, SerbiaAbandoned Olympic bobsleigh track, Trebevic, Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaMemorial to the Fallen of the Lješanska Nahija Region, Barutana, MontenegroA Monument to the Fallen Soldiers of the Cacak Partisan Detachment, Ostra, Serbia
Additional gallery – Abandoned Yugoslav Air Force underground base “Zeljava”:
