OPENING RECEPTION

FOR ARTIST WANG YIMING

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FRIDAY

FEBRUARY 16

6-9 PM

an ongoing project exploring the legacy, burden, and retrospective inspirations of recent decades of contemporary China and their implications for the existence of the artist.  A duality manifests itself as the living conditions of the people gradually improve since the late 1970s whereas a line of forgotten/hidden/erased events and history quietly evolve. Through distant tales, Wikipedia, and indirect underground literature, to know about a comprehensive history of the past (largely through these censored materials) has become itself a defiant behavior to this day in the artist's home country. Departing from a personal collection of archival vernacular photographs purchased in China, the artist incorporated found literature, newspaper articles, and news footage stills to clash with the lives these characters chose to remember through the taking of vernacular photographs: their collective history, recent past, present, and future.