Having just arrived in Québec, Chen Hua and Su Sheng take us to China by fixing their gaze on the urban and social landscape. On the one hand, Chen Hua undertakes to preserve the memory of rural ways of life that are increasingly swallowed up by the expansion of cities, where the remains of another era coexist with today’s everyday activities. On the other hand, Su Sheng immerses himself in the everyday of middle-class people in order to identify the characteristics of a population marked by the one-child policy. When the children seem to have everything, what can the ones that we call the “little emperors” still dream of?
An initiative of Le Lieu, centre en art actuel in collaboration with the Xiang Xishi Center for Contemporary Art and the artist-run centres Avatar, La Chambre Blanche, and VU.
Biographies
Su Sheng est né en 1979 à Zhenhzhou en Chine. Il est professeur associé, superviseur de maîtrise et directeur du Second Studio du programme de cinéma, de photography et d’animation de la Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. Il est aussi membre de la China Photography Association, vice-président de la Xi’An Young Photographers Association et membre du comité de la Shaanxi Artist Association Experimental Art committee.
Chen Hua est né et travaille en Chine (1983). Il suit une formation académique à la Beijing Film Academy où il termine un doctorat en 2013. Il est récipiendaire, en 2017, du Top 20 Chinese Contemporary Photography Exhibition tout en exposant, entre autres, au Musée des Beaux-Art de Shaaxi, au Three Shadows Photography Art Centers de Beijing et au Musée d’art de Cui Zhenkang.
