{"id":19,"date":"2012-04-09T21:55:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T01:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2012-05-15T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T19:43:18","slug":"exhibition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition Info"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Liu Xia photograph, 1996-99. Copyright \u00a9 by Liu Xia.<\/p><\/div>\n

Overview:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The Silent Strength of Liu Xia” is a traveling exhibition of 26 b&w images made between 1996 and 1999 by this dissident Chinese artist, photographer, and poet, while her husband Liu Xiaobo was serving a sentence in a forced-labor camp.<\/p>\n

The negatives were made with\u00a0an old Russian 2-1\/4 twin-lens reflex camera; most of them were exposed in her Beijing apartment. Their nominal subjects are still-life arrangements of an assortment of \u00a0what she calls\u00a0“ugly kids” dolls that a friend brought her years ago from Brazil.<\/p>\n

Produced secretly in Beijing, the dramatically oversized prints in this exhibition were extracted from the PRC one at a time in a process supervised by the intrepid journalist and social commentator Guy Sorman<\/a>, author of the scathing critique The\u00a0Empire of Lies: The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century<\/em>\u00a0(French edition 2008, English edition 2010) and numerous other texts about China.<\/p>\n

Specifics:<\/strong><\/p>\n