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Hongxiang Zhou

Chinese Portraiture video installation, CN, 2006

It is a conceptual image work, like a dictionary, presented in the way of Chinese traditional scrolls. The various Chinese people: worker, policemen, emperor of Qing Dynasty, the intellectuals, monk, old people, children, beggar, farmer-worker, judge, etc. have been imaged with their most remarkable characters, morals and habitualness.