"The San Yuan Li Project"
2004-08-22 until 2004-09-30
Courtyard Gallery
Beijing, , CN China

The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing  is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition - San Yuan Li Project work by Cao Fei and Ou Ning. San Yuan Li, a collaborative work by U-theque members, is a case study of the typical “village-amidst-the-city” phenomenon in the process of urbanization in Canton. San Yuan Li uses San Yuan Li village as a sample to do researches on the city of Canton.

Armed with DV cameras, the crew penetrated San Yuan Li village as a kind of “city flâneurs”, attempting to rethink the debt of history, the confrontation and reconciliation between the process of modernization and the patriarchal clan system and rural community system of Canton, as well as the weird architectures and the humanscape emerging in this village-amidst-the city. All of the images shot are then weaved into a piece of black-and-white imagery poetry.

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