Religion Space

　This new series of photographic works were taken during 2007/2008 in small villages and rural area of Shanxi and Anhui provinces. Qu Yan, maintaining his artistic way of research, recorded and expressed his feelings about activities in the countryside churches (Catholic and Christian). As spaces for religious activities, churches built in different rural areas show a wide variety of mixed styles according to local culture, personal ideas and available means. Some of them didn’t get permission from the government and are still “underground”. Qu Yan’s artworks as windows on man’s soul and society, present the sensitive conditions of religious activities in contemporary China, but also the collision between foreign and local culture.

　　这组新的摄影作品是渠岩于2007-2008年在山西、安徽两省的乡村，郊区拍摄的。他沿用了自己的艺术研究方式，记录并表达了自己对当前农村的教会活动（天主教、基督教）的情感。作为宗教活动的举办地点―教堂，也因当地文化特征、个人情感和以各种可行的方式在各地建造着。而其中的一些教堂并没有得到政府部门的许可，处于“地下活动”状态。渠岩的艺术作品正如一扇扇社会之窗和人的灵魂之窗，展现了当代中国复杂、敏感的宗教状况以及西方文化与中国当代本土文化的碰撞

Dong’ergou Qikushan Goddess Church, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province

150 x 200 cm  2007

RELIGION SPACE

《信仰空间》

New Photographic Works by Qu Yan

渠岩摄影新作展

Duration：March 9th ?C March 30th, 2008

展览日期：2008年3月9日至3月30日

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(星期二至星期日)11时至18时

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