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An installation focussing on the social and environmental problems
resulting from China's extremely rapid launch into the current world
of mechanization and industrialization. Kelk uses Chinese brush
painting techniques and Chinese icons to highlight the smog and
pollution which envelop the lives of the forgotten poor whose lack
of social mobility ties them to drudgery and despair--all of this
in a China driven by exuberance to prove itself "modern"
and prosperous as host of the 2008 Olympic Games.
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