Urban-Rural Fringe Group, Urban-Rural Fringe Group Prologue

The Urban-Rural Fringe Group, composed of artists Gong Jian and Li Jinghu, takes the areas where China’s cities end and countryside begins as an imagined realm where anything is possible and the arbitrary reigns. In opposition to both the order of the city and the natural state of the countryside, the urban-rural fringe displays a radical mix of clamor, chaos, squalor, and disorder.

This artwork was featured in the UCCA exhibition "ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, ” 2013