Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
Photography became art again in China in the late 1970s and 1980s. Whereas this visual technology was largely reduced to a propaganda tool during the first thirty years of the People’s Republic, it reconnected with individual expression after the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) was over. The April Photographic Society [...]

Published in the Zooming into Focus catalog, 2005
Contemporary art in China reflects the country’s rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the global arena. Chinese artists are gaining international recognition for their potent artworks that address a rapidly changing society; influenced by Western ideals and art practice, their creative production nevertheless remains [...]

Lianhe Zaobao NOW, Singapore, August 2005
No longer for the sole purpose of documentation, photography and video in art has become a popular medium in contemporary Chinese art. Zooming into Focus: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, on view now in Singapore, offers an insight into the development of contemporary Chinese photography and [...]