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LIU Ren
95 Hours 10 Minutes 95小时10分钟, 2011
Oil on straw paper 油彩在草纸上
22 x 16 cm
25 years ago, the most catastrophic nuclear accident by far happened in the Chernobyl nuclear plant. The total death toll caused by this accident has been remained a mystery ever since. According to Greenpeace organization, the direct death toll was at least 9.3 millon. 200 million people suffered from the threat of radioactive substances, among which 27 million people had cancer caused by the radioactive substances. Chernobyl nuclear radiation not only turned the city into a deserted ghost town, but also left irreversible pollution in the Eastern Europe, the Scandinavia area and the parts of Western Europe.
On March 11th, 2011, in the east of Japan, 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered Fukushima nuclear power plant a Grade Seven nuclear accident. Nuclear radiation damaged the Fukushima Prefecture. The radioactive substances, which were released into the sea, have been taken by the ocean currents into every corner of the earth. In the next few decades or even centuries, this accident cast a negative impact on the survival of mankind as a whole.
What if Fukushima catastrophe happened in China...
We invited seven young artists, Han Feng, Liu Ren, Lu Tianyang, Su Chang, ZAKA, Zhang Yunyao and Zheng Huan to explore this hypothesis together in this show.
Han Feng's work has always been the continuity of his personal understanding of the rapid development of this society. Liu Ren’s work gave an answer to this hypothesis by using the train accident on July 23rd. Lu Tianyang’s huge painting tried to tell us his distilled sentiment of the so-called round-table. Su Chang’s watercolor paintings reflected how daily experiences connect to the emergency responses. ZAKA brought the painting and the installation to explain that truth lies in the imagery. Zhang Yunyao’s work demonstrated ambiguity and vagueness by a monochrome and a sentence. Zheng Huan's installation went beyond our proposition by thinking about why we pursue sciences from the beginning.
On March 11th, 2011, in the east of Japan, 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered Fukushima nuclear power plant a Grade Seven nuclear accident. Nuclear radiation damaged the Fukushima Prefecture. The radioactive substances, which were released into the sea, have been taken by the ocean currents into every corner of the earth. In the next few decades or even centuries, this accident cast a negative impact on the survival of mankind as a whole.
What if Fukushima catastrophe happened in China...
We invited seven young artists, Han Feng, Liu Ren, Lu Tianyang, Su Chang, ZAKA, Zhang Yunyao and Zheng Huan to explore this hypothesis together in this show.
Han Feng's work has always been the continuity of his personal understanding of the rapid development of this society. Liu Ren’s work gave an answer to this hypothesis by using the train accident on July 23rd. Lu Tianyang’s huge painting tried to tell us his distilled sentiment of the so-called round-table. Su Chang’s watercolor paintings reflected how daily experiences connect to the emergency responses. ZAKA brought the painting and the installation to explain that truth lies in the imagery. Zhang Yunyao’s work demonstrated ambiguity and vagueness by a monochrome and a sentence. Zheng Huan's installation went beyond our proposition by thinking about why we pursue sciences from the beginning.
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