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My Chinese Family 我的中國家庭
2004
MAP Office is a research think tank based in Hong Kong, led by Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix. For over a decade, the architect/artist duo has explored the rapid changes taking place in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), a region of intense development and industrialisation. MAP Office critically approaches the PRD as an interface of local and global forces such as cultural identity and massive urbanisation, documenting how these transformations affect people and space. They use multiple methods, including maps, drawings, photographs, videos, writings, and performances, to record and communicate information. My PRD Stories gathers a number of projects MAP Office undertook between 2001 and 2005. The works demonstrate the office’s approach and recurring subjects of landscape, infrastructure, architecture, inhabitation, economics, and labour.
My Chinese Family is a series of photographs riffing on both family portraits in mainland China and snapshots by Euro-American tourists. The images are taken at Window of the World, a theme park in Shenzhen containing over one hundred replicas of famous tourist attractions from around the world. Staged in front of the ‘Eiffel Tower’, the portraits depict fictional multi-ethnic families and question notions of identity and belonging.
My Chinese Family is a series of photographs riffing on both family portraits in mainland China and snapshots by Euro-American tourists. The images are taken at Window of the World, a theme park in Shenzhen containing over one hundred replicas of famous tourist attractions from around the world. Staged in front of the ‘Eiffel Tower’, the portraits depict fictional multi-ethnic families and question notions of identity and belonging.
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