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2014 Contact Photography Festival: Part 4

Mid-way through the Contact Photography Festival, the exhibition “Through the Body: Lens-Based works by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists” opened at the University of Toronto Art Centre. Though Chinese contemporary art has had impact on the international art world since the 1980s, the face of Chinese art has been dominated by male artists. Responding to this, curators Matthew Brower, Fu Xiaodong, and Yan Zhou decided contribute to Contact’s exploration of identity by bringing together the photography of eleven contemporary Chinese female artists and collectives whose work explores the social and political circumstances that surround them.