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WORCESTER ART MUSEUM TWO CHINAS: CHEN QUILIN AND YUN-FEI JI SHORTIES

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WORCESTER, MASS. — Worcester Art Museum presents “Two Chinas: Chen Quilin and Yun-Fei Ji,” through September 21.

This exhibition considers the rapidly changing conditions in China through the lens of new acquisitions created by two young Chinese artists, Chen Quilin (b 1975) and Yun-Fei Ji (b 1963). Both artists have responded to the altered landscapes and human displacement, caused by flooding, which is a result of China’s Three Gorges Dam project.

Chen Quilin uses video in “Bie Fu” (Farwell Poem), from 2003, to revisit her childhood memories and China’s past amidst the rubble of Wanzhou, her hometown and one of the cities flooded by the dam project. In Yun-Fei Ji’s monumental scroll-like painting, “Below the 143 Meter Mark,” from 2006, allusions to classical landscape painting are transformed by grim contemporary details — houses and hillsides crumbling, a ghost town littered with abandoned bundles and bicycles.

The Worcester Art Museum is at 55 Salisbury Street. For information, 508-799-4406 or www.worcesterart.org.