The individual ceases to exist in Liu Bolin’s Hiding in the City series.
TOP TO BOTTOM, Hiding in the City
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China is now in a paradox of adopting capitalist values and economic dreams which exist within an anachronistic communist framework. Within this context of a desperate leap towards a “modern” future, Bolin suggests the disintegration of the individual. He has commented, “Indulged in the development he has achieved, man is in fact digging his own grave with his greed… Instead of playing an active role in a dominant position, man… characterizes his existence with gradual and self-incurred disintegration.”
Liu Bolin is currently showing in a group show at Galerie Bertin-Toublanc, Paris, from April 5 to May 31.
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What’s wrong adopting some of the more positive aspects of capitalism to advance the cause of socialism? All isms are man-made and should evolve with time. It is proving successful in improving the lives of the people on a massive scale in China. Without China in her current powerful economic state, the USA’s present financial crisis could have imploded and brought about a situation which could be disastrous not only to the US but also , the whole Western society. What the West now feel uneasy most now is perhaps the possibility of rest of the world also following China’s example and thus enabling the third world nations to free themselves from the the economic ( and military) grip of the Western powers.