Awarded exhibition spotlights traumatic memories in Beijing
China DailyA still from The Inextinguishable Fire, a 25-minute documentary by German filmmaker Harun Farocki in 1969, is featured in The New Survivors, an exhibition curated by Wang Shuman on show at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing until July 2, 2023. The New Survivors, an exhibition now on view at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing, exploring how traumatic memories are recorded, produced, edited and constructed with new meaning in the system of photography and moving image, may resonate with many. Curated by Wang Shuman, a Shanghai-based art curator, the show won the second Jimei Arles Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image. The establishment of the award is part of the diverse efforts of Three Shadows, established in 2007 in Beijing’s Caochangdi art district, in supporting photography and video art in China through exhibitions at its two spaces in Beijing and Xiamen, photography festivals, workshops, and artist-in-residence programs.