Shenzhen photographer, Gu Yun (谷韵) has taken lovingly poetic images of Biennale exhibits. I appreciate these images for their intimacy. The biennale has presented massive projects at a scale that seems analytic and abstract; in contrast, Gu Yun’s images reveal her steps to engage individual works close up and personal, as we sometimes say. Indeed, Gu Yun has me thinking about the revealingly personal work of viewing, digesting, and appropriating objects. Enjoy.
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About Mary Ann O'Donnell
I have conducted ethnographic research in Shenzhen since 1995, aiming to make legible the shifting cultural landscapes of China’s oldest and fastest growing “Special Economic Zone.” My interests and interventions include theorizing the cultural logics of postsocialist urbanization, photography and creative documentation of the changing cityscape, and ongoing collaboration with Fat Bird Theatre, Shenzhen. More generally, I attempt to document, understand, and critically participate in the post Cold War production of industrial cosmographies, with an eye to imagining cross-culturally resonant forms of sustainable globalization.
Mary Ann, can you describe or is there a description somewhere of these works? For example what are these? Paintings? Photos? How many? Media? What size?? Is it possible to see individual surfaces from this body of work?
Hi Judith, these are images from the exhibits in B-10 hall, OCAT venue of the biennale. A description of events and projects are available at: http://www.szhkbiennale.org/2011/?lang=en I’m hoping to have Boom! pictures tonight or tomorrow for a fabulous post!