They series, (They recorded for the future, 31)
(1999)
- Medium
- cibachrome photograph
- Measurements
- (41.5 × 60.0 cm) (each sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- China
- Edition
- ed. 11/18
- Accession Number
- 2021.575
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Supporters of Asian art and NGV Foundation, 2021
© Courtesy of the artist - Gallery location
- Asian Art - Chinese Gallery
Level 1, NGV International - About this work
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Hai Bo examines the mass social transition from the idealism of the Cultural Revolution (1966–76) to the pragmatism of everyday life of the 1990s. The artist uses studio portraits made during the Cultural Revolution and juxtaposes them with portraits of the same sitters photographed around the end of the twentieth century. Expressing this period of sweeping social change that touched the lives of more than one billion Chinese people, Hai Bo charts the ageing process and the inexorable march of time.