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Gordon Cheung

Tears of Paradise, 2020
Financial Times stock listings, archival inkjet, sand and acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm
59 1/8 x 78 3/4 in.
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'Tears of Paradise' offers a macro-perspective of the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone and Greater Bay Area, which encompass a group of major cities including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Zuhai, Jiangmen...
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'Tears of Paradise' offers a macro-perspective of the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone and Greater Bay Area, which encompass a group of major cities including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Zuhai, Jiangmen and Dongguan, as well as Macau and Hong Kong. The lines sprawling across the floating land mass in the painting, rendered in sand, depict the vast infrastructural projects of the past decade designed to connect these areas. These include the longest sea bridge in the world, 3000km of highways and over 2200km of high speed railway. The infamous One Belt One Road map, which champions infrastructural connectivity above all else and has become a recurrent theme in Cheung’s work, is depicted as a constellation in the sky. At the base of the painting, opium flowers reference the Opium Wars, a historical cornerstone in the Party's argument for the need for Chinese self-determination and economic independence.
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