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Like Zhang Yihe’s novellas, Xing Danwen’s art draws attention to a sense of isolation resulting from modern society’s displacement of values, and the manipulation and control of communal memories. The past loses any stable meaning, and the present is transitory and unsettling. Xing’s photographs and installations often depict women confined within sterile spaces; the dreams of childhood have become mass-produced products, and the instruments of communication are broken and discarded.


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The animation loop from the multi-media installation Wall House (above), projects a solitary figure moving through the image of an empty bedroom; the sole occupant of the room, she is emotionally and physically alone, and a stranger in her dehumanized environment [End Page viii] .


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