Fear, No Fear was his major project in the last year of his life. This exhibition was initiated by him and organised by the Times Art Center Berlin. The title conveys a message: you have to admit that fear exists, and overcome it. Other than being the initiator, Xiaopeng also contributed two artworks to the show. (excerpt from "Nothing to Lose, Huang Xiaopeng and His Two Works in Fear, No Fear" by Anthony Yung)

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In Highway 168, villagers pour out onto a dark street like fleeting white ghosts, appearing one after another in a carefully rehearsed theater, and then disappear, exiting the illuminated scene, leaving only long-lasting, overlapping images on film.

The work transforms public images: Huang used a video scene, downloaded from the Internet, that shows a “碰瓷” (literally translated as touch/bump into porcelain), a colloquial Chinese term referring to a deliberate staging of an accident on the streets to claim compensation. The work draws connections to an absence of “real,” “true” events, creating ambiguity toward the video’s actual incident. With an abundance of seemingly real happenings recorded and stored online, that are part of our visual reality today, Highway 168 plants seeds of doubt about their authenticity and highlights the subtle differences that can turn them into “nightmare realities,” as Huang says.