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       Helsinki-Himalayan Exchange    (1999-2000)

 

Mixed media installation: wooden donation box, wooden platform, postcards, calligraphy on Nepalese paper.

This installation is the result of an invitation by the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Kiasma, Finnland, to participate in a Himalayan trek outside Katmandu. While in the mountains, the artist was inspired by the landscape, but troubled with the poverty he had experienced in Katmandu. Remembering similar trips to the Chinese country.

Read Xu Bing's "Gaining Grass-root Expeience"
an essay of his trip to Napal and Himalayan

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