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Liu Wei

Weile Mingtian de Jiyi

Documentaire | dv | couleur | 18:6 | Chine | 2010

This is a documentary about the armed violence in China during the Great Cultural Revolution. Traces are spread out from the only left ¡°Cultural Revolution Graveyard¡± in Chongqing, recollect the impact of the bygones to their life in the course of their growth, listen to their opinions and reflects to the historical disaster. Also raised the question of why such a tragedy had happened in China? For what reasons had they suffered from the tragedy? From the narrator¡¯s words, we seem to find some solutions, but far from enough. If we are indifferent to the disasters caused by the Cultural Revolution, never reflect about it, there might be possibilities more sufferings would happen, that we are reluctant to see it again.

Lu Wei est un artiste indépendant vivant et travaillant à Pékin. Il est diplômé du département d?arts plastiques de la China Central Academy of Drama et a achevé ses études avec un colloque sur le thème des relations entre la religion et la culture à l?Université de Pékin. Son travail est étroitement lié à son expérience et ses souvenirs personnels et aux mutations rapides de l?histoire de la Chine contemporaine. La mémoire est le sujet principal de sa création. Ses ?uvres ont été internationalement exposées dans beaucoup d?institutions, y compris le ZKM Center for Art and Media de Karlsruhe; le Centre Pompidou à Paris, le Nasher Museum of Art aux Etats-Unis, le WRO Art Centeren en Pologne, le Musée Fabre à Montpellier, le Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, le Taipei Fine Art Museum, le Centre of Contemporary Art Palau de la Virreina à Barcelone, l?Haus der Kulturen der Welt à Berlin et le Guangdong Museum of Art en Chine, etc.