To a pop-music beat, images from prints alluding to Bei Tui Tu, a Tang Dynasty book that forecast the future history of China, flash by. Intercut are shots of the hands of a deaf-mute telling a story in sign language; th rapidly gesturing hands create a visual metaphor for the power of fate to pull the strings of individual lives. Overall, Qiu Zhijie suggests the struggle between the forces of destiny and self-assertion.
Lives in Beijing.
1969 Born in Fujian province
1992 Graduated from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou
Selected Exhibitions:
1993
China’s New Art, Post-1989, Hanart Gallery and Hong Kong Arts Center
1997
Contemporary Photography from the People’s Republic of China, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
1998
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society, New York and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (co-presented in New York at PS1 Contemporary Art Center)
It’s Me: An Aspect of Chinese Contemporary Art in the 90s, Imperial Ancestral Temple, Forbidden City, Beijing
1999
Post-Sense Sensibility: Distorted Bodies and Delusion, Basement of Building No. 2, Peony Residential District, Beijing
Revolutionary Capitals: Beijing-London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
2001
Translated Acts: Body and Performance Art From East Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and Queens Museum of Art, New York
2002
Pingyao International Photography Festival
Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art, 1990-2000, The First Guanzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
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