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CHINA


2005

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CHINA
2005

Beijing, Shanghai and Changchun

"I bore in mind one of the thoughts attributed to Confucius to help guide me through my first steps in the Middle Kingdom: 'Absence of talent in a woman is a virtue.' So I set off in search of talented women…"

Abstracts

"China is the country that has the most of everything, and also, as a result, the most coal mines. In a big outpouring of pure rhetoric, the Chinese government recently declared its great concern about ecological issues while also planning to bring current production of 2.1 billion tons of coal… up to 2.4 billion tons in 2010. Similarly, drastic laws have been promulgated on security in the mining environment.

Except that in the field, below the ground, corruption sets the law. Official statistics announce 6,000 deaths every year. Unofficial estimations cast out a figure of 20,000 deaths. Wen Wen lives in a small village near the Korean border, an hour or two from Baishan, literally 'White Mountain'. In summer, Baishan mountain is grey, veering towards anthracite black.

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard

Works

CHINA 1714
Yang Li Na, 2005

Changchun, China
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

CHINA 1716
Yang Li Na 2, 2005

Changchun, China
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

CHINA 1718
Changchun, 2005

China
Gouache and pencil on paper
37 x 92 cm

CHINA 1720
Wen Wen, 2005

Wangou, China
Gouache and pencil on paper
46 x 37 cm

CHINA 1722
Wen Wen 2, 2005

Wangou, China
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

CHINA 1775
La mine, 2005

Wangou, China
Middle format Contax 645
30 x 24 cm

CHINA 1777
À la maison, 2005

Wangou, China
Middle format Contax 645
65 x 90 cm

CHINA 1779
Plantations bucoliques, 2005

Wangou, China
C-Print
185 x 150 cm

CHINA 1732
Mei Mei, 2005

Beijing, China
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

CHINA 1734
Mei Mei 2, 2005

Beijing, China
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

CHINA 1736
Mei Mei 3, 2005

Beijing, China
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

CHINA 1738
Mei Mei 4, 2005

Beijing, China
Middle format Contax 645
70 x 90 cm

CHINA 1730
Wen Hui, 2005

Beijing, China
Gouache on paper
43 x 33 cm

CHINA 1741
Xu Jingley, 2005

Beijing, China
Gouache on paper
37 x 46 cm

CHINA 1743
Wang Yue, 2005

Beijing, China
Gouache on paper
100 x 47 cm

CHINA 1781
Yi Li Na, 2005

Beijing, China
Gouache on paper
100 x 47 cm

CHINA 1784
Senggy, 2005

Beijing, China
Gouache on paper
100 x 47 cm

CHINA 1787
Les rockeuses de Pékin, 2005

China
Middle format Contax 645
55 x 48 cm

Maps

CHINA 1709
China, 2005

Gouache on paper
80 x 120 cm

Making-of

Illustration Making Of
At Yang Li Na's, 2005

© Bruno Pellarin

Illustration Making Of
Preparation of the photo-tableau "Les plantations bucoliques", 2005

© Bruno Pellarin

Illustration Making Of
Preparation of the photo-tableau "Pékin", 2005

© Bruno Pellarin

Illustration Making Of
Portrait of Wen Wen, 2005

© Bruno Pellarin

Film by Marc Jampolsky

Image by Delphine Bole

Books

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