Husband and wife photographers Shao Yinong and Mu Chen began working collaboratively in 2000. Shao had previously practised as a painter and Mu, like many Chinese photography students, trained as a journalistic photographer. In 2002, they joined the Long March Project and executed a series of photographs of public halls used by the Red Army. Often these spaces were initially constructed by families as ancestral halls. The Red Army, however, appropriated many of them to use as venues for public meetings. As the social and political environment in China has developed, the function of these spaces has changed once again. Shao and Mu’s photographs document the transformation of the Red Army public halls into cafeterias, karaoke bars, theatres and a range of other present day uses. Their carefully composed photographs, however, retain the traces of the halls’ previous functions.
Shao Yinong and Mu Chen have exhibited their work collaboratively since 2001. Major exhibitions include ‘Great Theatre of the World: 2002 Taipei Biennale', Taiwan; ‘Alors la Chine’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, in 2004; and ‘Techniques of the Visible: 2004 Shanghai Biennale', Shanghai Art Museum, China; and ‘Living in Interesting Times – A Decade of New Chinese Photography’, The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, Israel, in 2005.
Gallery 1.1, GoMA
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