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Here the c print include in the book :

China, dangerous landscapes

中国，危险的景观
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> 1) La société se croit seule mais il y a quelqu’un
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> Society thinks it’s on its own, but someone is there.
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> 这个社会自认是单独存在的，而实际上是另有旁人的。
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> 2) Je ne suis pas un déchet
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> I am not trash
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> 我不是垃圾
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> 3) Produire, évacuer, remplacer
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> Produce, evacuate, replace
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> 被生产，被蒸发，被替代
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> 4) Je suis le nom, vous êtes le Calcul
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> I am the name, you are the number
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> 我是名字，你是数字
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> 5) Dix mille choses, dont moi
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> Ten thousand things, including me
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> 一万件事物，包括我本人
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> 6) Mon calme, votre violence
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> My calm, your violence
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> 我的冷静，你的暴力
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> 7) Ce qui ne me tue pas me fortifie
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> What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger
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> 那些没有杀死我的，终将使我更强大
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> 8) Nous sommes vos ombres irréductibles
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> We are your inseperable shadows
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> 我们是你无法分离的影子
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> 9) Voici venir les justes
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> Here come the Righteous
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> 正义者来了

For the past two years, Han Lei has been experimenting with grating plates to create three-dimensional images; a process the artist finds as intriguing as traditional media such as silver gelatin prints. His enthusiasm for this particular material and his investigation into it diversifies the artist’s understanding of “moving images”, giving birth to more creative […]

Xu Yong
Negatives

In 1989, Xu Yong photographed the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, China. For 25 years, the negatives have been hidden in his archives in order to prevent censorship by the Chinese government.
Photographer Xu Yong was 35 years old when the student’s protests started in the spring of 1989, triggered by the death of Hú Yàobang, the general secretary of Chinas Communist Party. As the regime held on to its rigid policy amidst the drastic change coming about in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Tiananmen Square became the center of the protests. People took it to the streets, demonstrating for democracy and the freedom of the press as much as against corruption and censorship. In the dawn of June 4, the Chinese military ended the protests forcefully.
Among the protesters was Xu Yong who intuitively captured the scenes with his camera. All photographs of the events were strictly censored by the government later on. The images were therefore hidden in his archives for 25 years.
This year, however, for the first time in Germany, a selection of his works has been exhibited at the Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie. Yong decided against processing the images and instead reproduced inverted color negatives which may only be decoded with a smartphone or tablet camera, via the function of inverting color effect to negative, providing us with a surreal, yet unbiased glance at these historic events.
Yong’s main objective was to publish his photographs one day as testimony of the events and to artistically transform its historic significant and political content. Through his negatives we see more than what his photographs show at first sight as they mirror the difficult times of
censorship in China. In 2014, Xu Yong finally published his photographs in a book. However, sales and distribution has been inhibited by the government ever since. Since 2015, a new edition of the book is available, published by Verlag Kettler in Germany.

Galerie Julian Sander is proud to show a selection of works from the series “Negatives“.
Xu Yong will be present on the opening weekend and available for a book-signing on September 4 at 3 pm.

Xu Yong is born 1954 in Shanghai. Lives and works in Beijing, China.