Floating Population
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Museum Arnhem, 2020
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A site specific installation made out of my book Floating Population.
In the early 1980s, upon the opening up of China’s economy under Deng Xiaoping, farmers left their hometowns seeking work in China’s developing cities as a response to the resulting agricultural reforms. These people from China’s vast rural areas are referred to as the ‘floating population’.
By visually assembling photographs, video stills and photographed objects like textiles, rubber shoes, construction materials, a sock, piles of postcards and posters and more I investigate this stream of migrant laborers.
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Related works
After-Hour Shopping Mall (Project)
The Floating Population (Project)
