Chinese Portraiture

Hongxiang Zhou

China / 2023 / Experimental, Documentary / 12’50”I2404183

Chinese Portraiture
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SYNOPSIS

In this conceptual image work, we see one portrait after another of various Chinese people: they either impersonate or stage a prototypical character, or 'impersonate' themselves. We see normal workers, employees, old people, young girls, young men, intellectuals, farmers, but also someone wearing the clothes of the emperor of Qing Dynasty, we see a monk, a judge, and a beggar. Image after image

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