Date Jan 29, 2012 - Mar 4, 2012

Time 10am-5pm

Venue Minsheng Art Museum

Phone 021-6282 8729

Minsheng Art Museum is hosting an exhibition by the Paris-based Kadist Art Foundation.

The "Kadist: Pathways into a Collection" exhibit is structured around three segments, titled "Bifurcations of Meaning," "Work Work Work" and "The Aftermath."

The works within "Bifurcations of Meaning" explore how individuals express themselves differently in order to represent something that is thought to be common, showing how the world we inhabit can always be defined differently.

For example, "The Six Grandfathers, Paha Sapa, in the Year 502,002, C.E," created by Matthew Buckingham, is a photo and text piece that guides viewers through a history of Mount Rushmore - an outdoor monument in the US that portrays a group of former American presidents. The small texts on the wall create a timeline describing the different contexts and significances of this site. The timeline even creates a fictionalized future.

The highlight of the "Work Work Work" segment is a video titled "Killed" by William E. Jones. The video comprises an appropriation of photos from the 1930s, which were originally taken by the Farm Security Administration of the American government during the Great Depression. The images that appear in the video come from film that was never developed as they were censored for not portraying an idyllic, optimistic society.