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Two photographs presented side by side. On the left, a monochrome photograph depicts two women and a boy standing on an undulating stone footbridge over a lake. Trees can be seen in the background. On the right, a colour photograph depicts the same setting. The women, however, are now absent, and the boy from the left photograph is now a grown man leaning over the metal railing on the footbridge in the same position. The trees in the background have shed all their leaves.

Two photographs presented side by side. On the left, a monochrome photograph depicts two women and a boy standing on an undulating stone footbridge over a lake. Trees can be seen in the background. On the right, a colour photograph depicts the same setting. The women, however, are now absent, and the boy from the left photograph is now a grown man leaning over the metal railing on the footbridge in the same position. The trees in the background have shed all their leaves.

Two photographs presented side by side. On the left, a monochrome photograph depicts two women and a boy standing on an undulating stone footbridge over a lake. Trees can be seen in the background. On the right, a colour photograph depicts the same setting. The women, however, are now absent, and the boy from the left photograph is now a grown man leaning over the metal railing on the footbridge in the same position. The trees in the background have shed all their leaves.

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Hai Bo

Hai Bo 海波

Bridge 橋

1999

The black-and-white photo on the left is an old picture collected by the artist, which features three young men and women posing on a bridge in a lush garden. The colour photo on the right is a restaging of the black-and-white photo by the artist many years later. He tried to reunite the three people in the original photograph, but only the man returned. The man adopted the exact same pose, but the landscape is now desolate. Putting the two photos side by side, the artist marks the passage of time by using the potential of photography to remember the past.

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Object Number:

2012.398

Object Type:

Related Makers:

Hai Bo (Artist)

Medium:

chromogenic prints

Date:

1999

Dimensions:

overall: 124 × 364.5 cm

Collection:

M+ Sigg Collection

Credit Line:

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation

Copyright:

© Hai Bo

About the Maker:

Hai Bo (born 1962, Changchun) graduated from the Fine Art Institute of Jilin in 1984, and completed advanced studies at the Print Department of the Central Institute of Fine Arts in Beijing, in 1989. He creates conceptual photographic work that documents the changing climate of social, economic, and environmental conditions in contemporary China. Hai lives and works in Beijing.

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