For over a year, Hu Yang photographed and interviewed 500 local, migrant and foreign families living in Shanghai, from billionaires to the poor.
“I’m leading an irregular life and believe disorder inspires my creation. I like composing poems or lying in bed staring blankly. Staring blankly helps me to fancy and relax.”
Zhao Ke (Hunanese, Musician)
“ (…) For the last few decades I’ve collected a room of books, picure albums and articles about boats. I traveled along the seaside cities in China for my collection and got caught by te police in Xiamen, Fujian Province, in 1964, with an accuse of being a spy of America, I was accused of being a trator and spend two years in Baimaoling Mountain of Anhui Province for reformation. I make a linging by paper-cutting. My wife left me five years ago and I don’t have children. I shut myself at hme when she left me (…) I have no one to talk to and sometimes I shout or sing loudly at home in order not to lose my language fundtion. I’m not rich but spiritually satisfied. I won’t sell my collections even if someone pays me 5000’000 Yuan. I can’t live without them. Worry about one things, that is, what I’m going to do when I’m to old for paper-cutting.”
Yang Haidi (Shanghainese, Paper-cut Handicratsman)
His work is on exhibition at the ShanghART H-Space Gallery through the 30th of October, but many images, with quotes from the subject(s), can be viewed online:
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LINK [exhibition]