Le quotidien de l'art | Chen Qiulin

"As a witness to the city where she grew up being submerged under the water as the result of the Three Gorges Dam Project in 2003, Chen Qiulin's artistic practice is closely related to urbanization and its consequences, making works that reflect the rapid and profound changes and contradictions that disrupt the landscape and society, and evoke her personal memories with often a touch of nostalgia. In the Insights sector, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space presents several of her recent works, among which is The Hundred Surnames in Tofu, a large-scale video installation composed of dozens of screens showing Chinese surnames, carved with tofu, turning from fresh, white and delicate to smelly and spoiled in the end..."

2015年3月12日