In Conversation with 'They Chose China,' installation view, text on fabric panels, Pickled Art Centre, Unit One, Beijing, 2010.
In Conversation with 'They Chose China,' installation view, text on fabric panels, Pickled Art Centre, Unit One, Beijing, 2010.
In Conversation with 'They Chose China,' installation view, text on fabric panels, Pickled Art Centre, Unit One, Beijing, 2010.
In Conversation with 'They Chose China,' installation detail, text on fabric panels, Pickled Art Centre, Unit One, Beijing, 2010.
Left to right: Li Gang, Shuibo Wang, gallery assistant at Pickled Art Centre, Unit One, Beijing, 2010
In Conversation with 'They Chose China', installation process, Pickled Art Centre, Unit One, Beijing, 2010
Detail, panel production at print shop, Beijing, 2010
Constructing panel frame outside print shop, Beijing, 2010
In Conversation with 'They Chose China,' gluing panel to frame outside the gallery, text on fabric panels, Pickled Art Centre, Unit One, Beijing, 2010.
In Conversation with 'They Chose China,' installation process, text on fabric panels, Pickled Art Centre, Unit One, Beijing, 2010.
In Conversation with 'They Chose China,' installation process, text on fabric panels, Pickled Art Centre, Unit One, Beijing, 2010.
In Conversation with 'They Chose China,' design detail, 2-panel text layout, Pickled Art Centre, Unit One, Beijing, 2010.
In Conversation with They Chose China (2010)
In Conversation with They Chose China, a film by Shuibo Wang took place at Pickled Art Centre, Unit One in the 798 Art District, Beijing. On short notice, Shuibo Wang agreed to the project concept and provided invaluable input. The work was made up of two large, fabric panel texts placed on either side of a monitor displaying the documentary, They Chose China. One panel described how I happened to find this film and its story of 21 American prisoners’ of war who chose to live in China following the Korean War. The other panel described my maternal grandfather (Dr. Robert McClure) and great-grandfathers’ lives in China as medical missionaries.
This exhibition took place simultaneously with Garry Kennedy’s, The Colours of Citizen Arar (A Continuation). Kennedy painted six rectangles in the size of the walls, floor and ceiling of the tiny cell where Canadian citizen Mayer Arar was detained for 10 months in 2002-03.