Vernissage: 19:30-21:30 March 18, 2016 Friday

Artist: Ju Anqi
Academic Director: Li Zhenhua

Preface

Being3 Gallery is proud to present the double-screen archival film project Big Character by artist Ju Anqi.Featuring a screening of the film, the exhibition opening will start at 7:30 pmon March 18, 2016.

Ten kilometers above the ground, an aerial view from Google Earth over a depopulated zone in eastern Xinjiang reveals thirty colossal Chinese characters and one exclamation mark in the bleak Gobi desert. Each character measures the size of a soccer field. Built from huge mounds of excavated earth, these characters form several slogans from the Cultural Revolution Era. In 1968, a secret military airport was built here and these phrases functioned as navigational markers. The film surveys these characters and then transitions from this endless earthen rubble to utopian visions and images of the waves of protests occurring around the world in 1968. Some show suppression of uprisings while others show protests forming. ….Throughsynchronized editing, these significant movements and events in differentcountries reveal to us the conflict that never stops.

The exhibition will continue until April 18th.Being3 Gallery welcomes all visitors.

“BIG CHARACTERS: VOL.1″, 2-channels video, 17mins, 2015
《大字：VOL.1》，双屏录像 ，17分钟 ，2015

“BIG CHARACTERS: VOL.1″, 2-channels video, 17mins, 2015
《大字：VOL.1》，双屏录像 ，17分钟 ，2015