INDEXG Exhibition Opening Reception Thursday, August 16, 2007 (7-10 pm) Prana Moira McElhinney G+ GALLERIES (Main floor) Exhibition runs from Aug 14 - 26 Invitation card View Press release Transition Kayoko Tanaka G+ GALLERIES (Main floor) Exhibition runs from Aug 16 - 26 Invitation card View Press release

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Photography by Du YingNan
China New Photo, LEE Ka-sing gallery (main floor and second floor), exhibition runs thru August 26, 2007.

A young woman came to see the China New Photo exhibition yesterday. Later on I had the chance to chat with her and ask what she thought of the show. She responded by saying that the portraits from Du YingNan looked like memorial photos, and made her feel they were the children of North Korea. The young woman happens to be Korean. I remember another person standing in front of the portraits for a long time. I told him the kids were from the same village which went through a serious flood two years ago. He told me he was interested in different facial features of these children and that one can almost see the work as the epitome of the different ethnicities representing the nation 'China'. Some visitors were curious about the red scarfs that the children were wearing. Many Chinese living outside of China would recognize the children with red scarfs as "the Little Red Guards" during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1978). But the little red guards movement was originated from The Youth and Children of China Movement set up by the Communist Party in 1949, and given its present name "Young Pioneers of China" in 1953. YP members consist of children between the ages of six and fourteen. By being a young pioneer, the children pledge their loyalty and love to the Communist Party and the motherland. As of 2002, there were an estimated 130 million YP members in China.

China New Photo is guest-curated by XiaoYi Zhu - a Beijing-based independent curator. Other photographers in the show includes Tang HaiTao, whose panoramic cityscapes are direct but filled with visual magnitude; Yan Shi's highly dramatic and constructed images send out strong messages on the loss of balance in nature; Yang Fei's dreamscapes and displaced memories are awe-inspiring and beautiful; Zhou XuFan's photo series inspired by Chinese lengends is exceptional and well-executed in the form of classical Chinese painting; and finally images from the journalist Wang YiShu reveal the "odd and bizarre" mise-en-scene in the daily life of present-day China, where every minute, the most uncanny sights can quickly become banal.

A view from the projection of John Vink's work The Quest For Land
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