Author: YANG FUDONG 杨福东

Size: 86×120cm×8

Signed and dated: Printed in 2002

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 380,000

LITERATURE
2004 Zooming into Focus：Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection/ShanghART Project/Shanghai
2016 Yang Fudong - The Chinese Photobook Collection/Three Shadows Photography Art Centre/Beijing Joint Publishing Company
signed in Chinese and dated 2002
NOTICE
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EXHIBITED
2004 Zooming into Focus：Contemporary Chinese Photography nd Video from the Haudenschild Collection，Shanghai Art Mussum，Shanghai
2013 Yang Fudong：Estranged Paradise，Works 1993-2013，Berkeley Art Museum，San Francisco，USA
2013 Yang Fudong：Estranged Paradise，Works 1993-2013，The Kunsthalle Zurich，Switzerland
In Don’t worry，It will be Better the protagonists are four young men and a woman，photographed inside a contemporary dwelling （high rise building apartment）. Good looking and elegant，they seem to embody the self-confidence of the new middle class that is driving the heated Chinese economy. However each image is supplemented by English words，forming a title； positioned against a red background，the words introduce a dissonant element. The expression of an idea that would otherwise remain hidden behind safe manners and behaviors，the phrase expresses a sense of uneasiness and becomes a commentary on the present moment portrayed in each image. In one image，shot from above in the apartment，the group looks out over the city. Deliberately cut out from the field of the image，but potentially reflected in the young people’s eyes，one can imagine the aggressive verticality of Shanghai’s new skyscrapers，the noisy cacophony of construction sites，and the intense activity of a city in a state of constant growth.