{"id":640,"date":"2012-06-25T11:34:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/?p=640"},"modified":"2012-12-08T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T00:22:29","slug":"liu-xia-exhibition-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/2012\/06\/25\/liu-xia-exhibition-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Liu Xia Exhibition \u2014 Update 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Independent<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Silent Strength of Liu Xia,” the touring exhibition of 26 photos by the dissident Chinese photographer, artist, and poet, opened in\u00a0Hong Kong on June 9, its first showing on Chinese soil. It will remain on view there until July 2. This represents the first public exhibition of these images on Chinese soil.<\/p>\n

The set presented in Hong Kong consists of new digital prints produced in Taipei, funded by the Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC)<\/a>, which is sponsoring this Hong Kong showing. The new prints are based on digital files made in Boulogne, France from the original prints exhibited at the show’s world premiere<\/a> in October 2011. (That set of prints will rest in New York over the summer, undergoing some minor conservation and the construction of new shipping crates before transport to Madrid.)<\/p>\n

\"City<\/a><\/p>\n

The show’s Chinese premiere took place at the City University of Hong Kong<\/a>. Subsequently it moved to the Hong Kong Arts Centre<\/a>. (Click on the preceding links for further details on each showing.) Both presentations utilized a modular installation designed by behavioural artist Sanmu of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

These two Hong Kong presentations of the show emerged from a logistical crisis that prevented shipment from New York of the prints extracted from the mainland by Guy Sorman and shown first in\u00a0Boulogne-Billancourt<\/a>\u00a0and then in\u00a0Manhattan<\/a>. That situation mandated rapid, inexpensive production of a second set of prints, while the display spaces available at the first Hong Kong site for the show,\u00a0the\u00a0City University of Hong Kong, made unconventional installation necessary.<\/p>\n

\"Liu<\/a>

Liu Xia installation with the “Empty Chair,” Hong Kong, June 9, 2012. Photo \u00a9 2012 by A. D. Coleman.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tienchi Martin-Liao (president of the ICPC) had\u00a0arranged with Amnesty International\u00a0for the shipping to Hong Kong of \u201cThe Empty Chair,\u201d a work by the\u00a0Dutch designer Maarten Baas<\/a>\u00a0created for AI. The sculptural metal chair, whose ladderback turns into a towering ladder leading skyward, symbolizes the world\u2019s imprisoned and otherwise fettered writers and other spokespersons for peace, freedom, and justice. Patrick Poon of the ICPC and Sanmu decided\u00a0to put Liu Xia’s portrait of her imprisoned husband Liu Xiaobo on the chair for the\u00a0exhibition.<\/p>\n

The set now on view in Hong Kong will travel next to Taipei, for inclusion in a group exhibition at the\u00a0Taipei 228 Memorial Museum<\/a>\u00a0that opens on July 14. (An extended tour of Taiwan is under discussion.) A selection of prints from the show will also go to Germany for the 12th International Literature Festival Berlin<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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