Patty Chang’s collaborative work Flotsam Jetsam with David Kelly is on display at Museo Madre’s exhibition “Utopia Dystopia: the myth of progress seen from the South.” This work depicted the internal exile of more than a million villagers displaced when their homes were covered by water during the creation of the Three Gorges hydroelectric dam in southern China. It fantasizes about an alternative underwater existence to examine the relationship between landscape, identity, and memory.
Conceived in relation to the Madre’s collection and including works by 55 Italian and international artists, this exhibition investigates contemporary practices that have responded to the massive social changes of the last half century: urbanization, industrialization, the creation of new urban peripheries, the demographic transformation of rural space, struggles related to bodily choices, freedoms and constraints.
Related artists
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David Kelley 大卫·凯利
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Patty Chang 张怡