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Chen Shaoxiong 陳劭雄
Ozawa Tsuyoshi 小澤剛
Canton Tokyo-1 廣東東京之一
2005
This installation consists of ink paintings on paper with prints and a bench with drawing materials. The paintings are connected and arranged in two long rows on the wall, presenting fragments of various scenes from the news, the streets, and everyday life, such as depictions of children with toys and an airplane in flight. The simplified Chinese characters for ‘Guangdong’ in yellow ink and traditional Chinese or Japanese characters for ‘Tokyo’ in blue ink indicate a relationship between the places and the scenes. The work marked the first collaboration between Chinese artist Chen Shaoxiong and Japanese artist Ozawa Tsuyoshi. As a form of cross-cultural and cross-border communication, their process involved a dialogue conducted through ink paintings and photographs that were mailed back and forth between Guangzhou and Tokyo. Each artist recorded his daily experiences and dreams, allowing the other to extend or reinterpret the images through painting. Their interest in collaborating came partly from a desire to respond to the political tensions between China and Japan at that point in time. Chen and Ozawa later approached Korean artist Gimhongsok and formed the collective Xijing Men in 2007, developing works related to Xijing, a fictitious East Asian city.
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