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Dimensions: 50 by 40 cm. 19 3/4 by 15 3/4 in.

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Exhibited: Museu de Arts Brasileira, China Contemporary Art, August 19-November 3, 2002

Between Past and Future-New Photography and Video from China, exhibition tour: New York, International Center of Photography, Asia Society, June 11-September 4, 2004, Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Octobert 2, 2004-January 16, 2005, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, September 2005-January 2006, Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, March -May 2006, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, summer 2006

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Notes: In one photo, a large character "bu"-meaning no-is written in bright red across his body and the wall behind him. Different parts of the character are painted on his body and on the wall, When these parts connect to form the character, they create the strange illusion that the figure's body has disappeared, and that the character has become independent, detached from the body and the wall. In other words, this character rejects the ground and makes the person invisible........Qiu believes that in this world "individuals have been completely transformed into an information process. Signs and codes have overpowered actual human begins, and our bodies have become merely their vehicles."

Selected from Between Past and Future: A Brief History of Contemporary Chinese photography

-Wu Hung