SHI Yong Think carefully, where have you been yesterday? 2007 Video|Multi-Channel Video| code: SYU022 / id:7732

Shi Yong’s extensive video project “Think Carefully, Where Were You Yesterday” (2007 – ongoing) deals with the ‘politics of representation’: The videos have deep personal perspectives and consist of interviews conducted with minorities that seldom have a voice of their own in China’s public realm. Neglected and ignored identities such as AIDS victims, prostitutes, political activists, homosexuals and drug addicts are being thoroughly questioned about their existence, their desires and defeats. Contrasting the disturbing narratives of exclusion, the aesthetic and the visual language of the videos consist of calm b/w close-ups focusing on every little expression of the inter-viewees. The outcome is a touching non-judgmental documentation of marginalized realities in today’s China.

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Videotheque-ShanghART Shanghai, Beijing
Group Exhibition BIRD HEAD  CHEN Xiaoyun  FENG Mengbo  HU Jieming  HUANG Kui  LU Chunsheng  LIANG Shaoji  LIANG Yue  SHI Qing  SONG Tao  SUN Xun  SHI Yong  TANG Maohong  XU Zhen  YANG Fudong  YANG Zhenzhong  ZHAO Bandi  ZHANG Ding  ZHU Jia   ZHANG Qing  ZHOU Tiehai  etc, Videotheque

2008

INVOLVED, Participating Artists: Knut Asdam, Miroslaw Balka, Stefan Brüggemann, Pavel Büchler, Corey McCorkle, Luc Tuymans, Yutaka Sone, Armen Eloyan, Shi Yong, Zhang Enli, Xu Zhen, Curated by Philippe Pirotte
Group Exhibition Other Works  etc, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

Oct 31, 2008 -Dec 15, 2008