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M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Hai Bo
Hai Bo 海波
The Three Sisters 三姐妹
1999
This work consists of two black-and-white photographs. The photograph on the left shows three young women in dark clothes, positioned with their shoulders touching. In the photograph on the right, two older women pose in a similar manner, with a gap at left. They resemble two of the younger women, suggesting that the two photographs depict the same women at different points in time and that one of the women has died in the intervening years. Hai Bo’s photography work documents the changing natural and social landscape in China. In the late 1990s, he created a series of diptych compositions. Each consists of an older photograph and a photograph that the artist takes of the same people in similar poses. Death is represented by an empty space. The display of two photographs draws attention to the passage of time and things that endure, change, and disappear. In this work, the skin and eyes of the older women show signs of age, experience, and emotion.
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