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“Living with Haixia” is from Sha Qin’s second series of work dealing with the significances of specific iconic images. The inspiration for this piece comes from film and literature of the Cultural Revolution. The artist builds a small monument to a reference point for beauty shared by the 1970s generation in the film “Haixia”, one of the more popular and meaningful films of the period. A thin copper wire outlines the details of one of the first television models produced in Shanghai, bringing nostalgia to those who would recognize it, while a collage of various colored sands reiterates the process of encapsulating a romantic highpoint for moviegoers at the time, preserving the value and virtue that resonates with a special generational identity. [Pete Bradt] |
