Ye Funa was born in Kunming in 1986 and graduated from the Experimental Art department of The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing in 2008. She also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Central Saint Martins, London. She is currently based in Beijing, where she teaches at CAFA, and her conceptual work in photographs and video seeks to investigate the notion of cultural identity through images that tap into China’s collective memory.

Ye’s film is part of ‘Family Album’, a series of video works. The new work is based on PYE products, and uses water as its backdrop. The film explores the artist’s notion that “time is like a thief”, as well as the oceanic separation between China and the West. None of the characters in the video have specific names; instead they co-reference an identity, a type of people, a generation.

Jiang Zhi was born in Hunan in 1971 and graduated from China Academy of Art in 1995. Currently based in Beijing and Shenzhen, Jiang received the Credit Suisse Today Art Award in 2012 and his major solo exhibitions include those at the Times Museum, Guangzhou, the Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, and Osage Gallery, Hong Kong. Working in video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation, his oeuvre is characterised by its diversity.

Jiang’s film explores the intimate relationship between individuals through the story of Qiong and Ke, two brightly plumed parrots. Bound by chains because their ‘dress’ is too beautiful, both could have lived in animosity but choose to coexist in love and affection. Their names are a riddle created by the artist as a ‘present’ for those who can guess the answer.

Ma Qiusha was born in Beijing in 1982. She graduated from CAFA’s Digital Media studio in 2005 and was also the recipient of a Master of Fine Arts degree in Electronic Integrated Art from the Alfred University in New York. Based in Beijing, she has had major solo exhibitions at the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester, UK, the UCCA and Taikang Space, Beijing, while she has also featured in group shows in St Petersburg, Moscow, Houston and London.

Ma’s film is titled ‘We’ and depicts people in stitched-together thin white cotton clothing while in the process of tearing themselves away from each other. This metaphor for mutual relations, from those between lovers to whole communities, highlights both the similarities and differences between people, as well as their relationships to their environment.

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