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M+, Hong Kong. Gift of the Artist, 2018, © Wang Bing
Wang Bing 王兵
Traces 遺址
2014
In Traces, Wang Bing examines the history of Chinese labour camps in the Gobi Desert as part of the government’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of the late 1950s. During the movement, thousands of alleged counter-revolutionaries were sent by the government of Gansu Province to camps in Jiabiangou and Mingshui for the purpose of ‘re-education’. Conditions were brutal, and many died of starvation.
Wang’s black-and-white video documents his journeys to the two former labour camps, capturing the bones, empty bottles, and clothing that record the earlier presence of human life. Through the amplified sounds of the artist’s footsteps and breath, the film presents a harrowing first-person account of the haunted desert landscape.
Wang’s black-and-white video documents his journeys to the two former labour camps, capturing the bones, empty bottles, and clothing that record the earlier presence of human life. Through the amplified sounds of the artist’s footsteps and breath, the film presents a harrowing first-person account of the haunted desert landscape.
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