The new work titled Baby, draws on the differences between the development of young children in a city environment as opposed to rural China.
It references notions of ‘naturalness’; ‘what babyhood and childhood mean’; ‘societal forces which impact on the developing child’.
The title is a double entendre – ‘baby’ as baby and ‘baby’ as a term of endearment for a lover.
Some children are enticed, encouraged, forced to grow up too quickly – without being able to experience the natural development from childhood to adulthood.
Liu Qinghe is best known for creating monumental, solitary human figures and treating their flesh in the manner of a traditional landscape. The effect is often unsettling, existentialist and psychologically intense.
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