Foto:  XING Danwen
Born 1967 Xi'an, Shanxi province

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These photographs come from a series documenting people of Xing Danwen's generation, born at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. The pregnant woman is a close friend of the artist, who - like many in the early 1990s - was a collector of Mao memorabilia. Of this piece Xing Danwen writes, 'Under Mao, there was no separation between the private world of the individual, the family, and the public political realm.' The photographs suggest contradictory feelings towards this period of history. [zt]