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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20180406
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20180618
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-snapshot-to-wec
 hat-a-migration-of-identity/
SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Snapshot to WeChat: A Migration
  of Identity
DESCRIPTION:6 APRIL - 17 JUNE 2018\n\n\n\n\n5-8PM\, free and open to all.\n
 \nRSVP via Eventbrite Here.\n\nWorldwide\, we share over three billion ima
 ges on social media every day. ‘Everyday photography’ has a profound i
 mpact on how we understand both our own culture and cultures we are less f
 amiliar with. This exhibition looks at photographs taken by ordinary peopl
 e in China and considers how the casual act of taking photos shapes our id
 entity.\n\nChina has seen an unprecedented migration from rural to urban l
 iving to support a rapidly expanding economy. As part of Liverpool 2018’
 s China Dream season\, Snapshot to WeChat presents three projects\, each e
 xamining the modern role of photography and casting some light on life in 
 a rapidly transforming culture.\n\nAnthropologist Dr Xinyuan Wang is the a
 uthor of Social Media in Industrial China. She investigates photos posted 
 on China’s immensely popular WeChat social media platform\, revealing ho
 w this new networked generation are using photographs online to facilitate
  and develop their identity.\n\nThomas Sauvin\, who lived in China for mor
 e than a decade\, discovered an accumulation of 35-mm photograph negatives
  in a Beijing recycling plant. He began buying the negatives by the kilogr
 am\, sorting through hundreds of thousand of images taken by ordinary citi
 zens to establish a celebrated archive called Beijing Silver Mine. Images 
 selected span a time between 1985 and the early 2000’s offering an oppor
 tunity to look at everyday life\, leisure and travel in China in an age be
 fore everybody carried smartphones at all times.\n\nTeresa Eng is a Britis
 h Chinese photographer who produced her project Self/Portrait in shopping 
 precincts in China\, asking young visitors to share a selfie from their ph
 ones and presenting it alongside a portrait she made of them. We present t
 he original Self/Portrait alongside a newly commissioned partner series ma
 de here in Liverpool.\n\nRSVP via Eventbrite Here.\n\nPart of China Dream\
 , a branch of Liverpool 2018. Special thanks to Thomas Sauvin\, Teresa Eng
  and Xinyuan Wang.\n\n\n
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