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One day in 2004 n°6

Cui Xiuwen

One day in 2004 n°6

2004

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90 × 110 cm

Ed. 3/6

Location: Italy

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About the artwork

This photograph by artist Cui Xiuwen shows a young Asian woman reclining in the foreground in front of the Forbidden City and an azure-blue sky. Her jet-black hair, porcelain complexion and sophisticated make-up give her an air of resignation, and her eyes seem empty. Her immaculate white dress and red scarf symbolize the Young Pioneers movement, dedicated to the children of the People's Republic of China. The saturated colors, such as the overly blue sky and powerful red, convey the oppression symbolized by the scene. The Forbidden City becomes the emblem of absolute, alienating power. Here, Cui Xiuwen questions the status of women, still oppressed and dominated by the law and male power.

Expert opinion

Like a figure of repulsion in front of a place steeped in political and historical symbolism, this young Asian woman questions the socio-cultural status of women dominated by male power. Featured at the 3rd edition of Art Paris Art Fair, Cui Xiuwen is one of the hottest artists on the Chinese scene. She is represented in France by Paris-based gallery Dix9. This work is characteristic of the work she developed in the 2000s, which is present in the collections of the Tate Modern (London, UK) and the Brooklyn Museum (New-York, USA).

About the artist

Chinese artist (1967-2018). A graduate of Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts, Cui Xiuwen works mainly in photography and video. Founding a collective of women artists in 1998, she focuses on the place of the individual, and more specifically on the sexual exploitation of women in modern China. Following the Century Woman exhibition organized in the 1990s by Beijing's National Museum of Fine Arts, the artist gained international recognition. She was the first Chinese artist to be exhibited at the Tate Modern (London, UK), and is now part of the collections of the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) and the Brooklyn Museum (New York, USA). Before her death in 2018, Cui Xiuwen was recognized by the entire art market, with awards such as the Annual Young Artist prize awarded by the Annual Convention of Chinese Art Critics, and exhibitions of her work at the Musée Maillol (Paris, France), the Boghossian Foundation (Brussels, Belgium), the Venice Biennale (Italy) and Art Basel (Hong Kong).

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