In Buddhism, the fundamental concept of "impermanence" teaches that all living and non-living objects are in an unrelenting constant state of change. Time, existence, and consciousness itself are nothing more than a series of eternally changing impermanent instants. For the unprecedented frenzy of development that is modern China there is perhaps no more fitting a metaphor than dust. ...

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The 2009 edition of the @rt Outsiders Festival —celebrating this year its tenth anniversary—focuses on extreme environments.

These are environments that were, until recently, uninhabited by human beings and that contemporary science and technology turn into "inhabitable" places (Antarctica, underwater world, outer space, deserts); but also those that are bec...

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L'édition 2009 du Festival @rt Outsiders – qui célèbre cette année son dixième anniversaire – a choisi de s'intéresser aux environnements extrêmes.
Ces environnements sont ceux, jusqu'à présent « inhabités » par les êtres humains, et que la technologie et la science contemporaines nous rend...

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En 2009, le barrage des Trois Gorges aura inondé des centaines de km2 dans le centre de la Chine. Yang Yi, né dans une petite ville construite sur le Fleuve Yangtsé, verra son village natal englouti par les eaux. Drame auquel le jeune photographe consacre sa première série, intitulée « Uprooted » (déracinés).
La fin d'u...

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m97 Gallery Shanghai is pleased to present "EXQUISITE CORPSE: China Surreal", a dynamic group exhibition of photographic works. Co-curated by Mathieu Borysevicz and m97 Gallery, this exhibition uses the Surrealists' game of Exquisite Corpse as a means to explore the collective subconscious of contemporary Chinese artists through the medium of photography. Twenty emerging and establish...

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