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Weng Fen's latest photographic series, I would name
it a youthful vision of Asia, an idea emerged from post-modern urban
Utopianism. The recent urban modernizations of cities all over China
seem to be driving the civic societies in China in the direction
of a homogeneous urban culture, at the same time eliminating their
origins and histories. The differences between north and south are
gradually erased by the crazy tides of duplicated cultural spaces
which infested with homogeneous skyscrapers. Together with the lamentation
of the loss of identity, Weng Fen's photography allegorically represents
the internal motivation behind the civic social ideology of Modernisation.
In July 2006 The Red Mansion Foundation invited Weng Fen to London
to show photographs from the series Staring at the Sea and also
to create a site specific installation The Viewing Stand. This was
Weng Fen's first solo show in the UK.
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