Between Past and Future. New Photography and Video from China shows the most innovative photographic and video works by Chinese artists from the past ten years. Whereas photography primarily served propagandistic purposes during the first thirty years of the People’s Republic of China, following the Cultural Revolution of 1976 and the death of Mao Tse-tung it gradually provided an opening for individual artistic expression. Since the mid 1990s, this particular art scene has established itself as an experimental avant-garde.
The exhibition, which explores central themes and lines of development within contemporary Chinese photography, has four different sections: „History and Memory“, „Performing the Self“, „Re-Imagining the Body“ and „People and Place“. Over 100 works are on view and reflect the unparalleled economic, social and cultural changes undergone by China in the last decade.
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