They Recorded for the Future 留給未來

1999

This pair of photographs—one black-and-white graduation picture shot in 1962 and one restaged colour image made by Hai Bo in 1999—is a part of the artist’s portrait series. He reunites the sixteen women from the original photograph under the cryptic banner of ‘for the future’. The differences in the women’s hairstyles and clothing between the two images reveal the dramatic transformation of Chinese society over a few decades.

Mapping Chinese Art, 1972–2012: Selections for the M+ Sigg Collection. M+, Hong Kong, 2019. sigg.mplus.org.hk

Details

Object Number:

2012.400

Object Type:

Photography

Related Makers:

Hai Bo (Artist)

Medium:

black-and-white photographic print and colour photographic print

Date:

1999

Dimensions:

overall (approx.): 243 × 179 cm

Collection:

M+ Sigg Collection

Credit Line:

M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation

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.

M+ Exhibition History

M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, 12 November 2021 to 30 July 2023
M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, 23 February 2016 to 05 April 2016

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