An exhibition in Guangdong explores the personal emotions evoked by China’s rapid growth and construction obsession of the 1990s
Hopes, love, and lost emotions were the themes in “Follow the Feeling,” a contemporary art exhibition at Guangdong Times Museum from March 23 to June 23.
In the museum’s long, narrow space, curator Qu Chang sought to tell the story of China’s rapid development and modernization in the 1990s with art pieces that explore personal experiences amid the soaring high rises and constant building. “We imagine [the venue] as a highway; a popular object in Chinese infrastructure,” Qu told an audience during an open guide to the exhibition on May 3.
Qu, a doctoral candidate at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, built the exhibition around her thesis about how love is portrayed in modern Chinese art and popular culture. She tells TWOC she hopes to bring audiences into the dialogue between spaces in the art gallery; to make the concepts she is researching tangible for general audiences.
While China went through abstract processes such as “modernization” and “industrialization,” this exhibition extracts the individualized experience of these forces and presents them as art.
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