Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art
March 25 - July 25, 2010
Four leading contemporary Chinese artists-Liu Xiaodong, Yun-fei Ji, Zhuang Hui, and Chen Qiulin-respond to the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangzi River in China.
This exhibition presents work that four leading contemporary Chinese artists-Liu Xiaodong, Yun-fei Ji, Zhuang Hui, and Chen Qiulin-created in response to the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangzi River in China. When completed in 2009, the hydro-electric dam will generate electricity equivalent to the power used by four cities the size of Los Angeles. However, the Dam's 375-mile reservoir has already displaced more than 1 million people and submerged more than 1,000 towns and villages. The exhibition is organized by the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago and curated by Wu Hung, Smart Museum Consulting Curator, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, and Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago.
IMAGE: Chen Qiulin, still from The Garden, 2007, 14:45 minute video
