《Lingering Garden》
GUO Guozhu
“The Lingering Garden” captures the villages abandoned by farmers inthe process of urbanization, which will be digested by nature and againreturned to the earth over time. During rapid urbanization, villages and townsalter and replace each other.
Over the decades, China has gone from acultivation culture towards modernization, resulting in millions of farmersflooding into cities to become the necessary working force. Such migrationrequires both the rural and the urban to change in response to the huge socialtransformation. To the migrant workers, they have to accept a break up ofcommunity and local connections, and must adapt themselves to the new mode ofproduction and new identities. “The Lingering Garden” takes an oppositeperspective of the modern city. Through documenting the landscape of abandonedvillages, it attempts to discuss the rural as the margin, in order to offer aview that is totally different from urban experience and consumerism and toreflect the seen and hidden power struggles between the traditional and themodern.
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GUO Guozhu was born in 1982, Yongchun, Fujianprovince. A graduate of the Department of Mechanics of Nanchang HangkongUniversity, he now lives and works in Xiamen. Since 2002, he has worked on“space” and social relations, of which space is his major focus. He alwaysraises questions by depicting spaces that depart from individual spirit andreturns to social phenomenon.
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