Event Date：2015.04.11-2015.04.11
Theme：Images From Red Nations
Content：Since 1997, Liu has traveled to more than 100 countries and produced more than 100 photography books. During his voyage, he has focused on past and present socialist countries, to create his unique series “Images from Red Nations.” Over six years, his photographic project has covered 21 of these countries, which is a sheer archievment and a challenging task done by a Chinese photographer. As Chinese photography commentator Bao Kun reviewed the project in his text After Socialism, “Liu Yuan experienced the red years, and half of his life was spent responding to ideology. Based onhis own life experience, he understands the other countries in the socialist family, which we now see in his photographs. His visits to these places are the realization of long-cherished dreams, because these countries were once only imagined. However, in this globalized world, they are not so distant. It is regretful thatthese visits have happened too late, because socialism has already ended in these places. In Liu Yuan’s photographs, we can see societies revisiting the true color of history. Those imagined socialist countries that gave us our communism ideals have already disappeared into the ether. Liu Yuan’s photographs pay tribute to his experience and to history.” The exhibition was opened on 11th April till 11th May, 2015 at Beijing 798 Inter Art Center / Gallery. The exhibition was showcasing more than 200 photography works by Liu Yuan, which covered the imagery of 15 socialist country-lands the photographer ever stepped on. A forum based on the exhibition was held at 3.00 pm in the afternoon on 12th April, in the evening after the forum at 7:00 pm, a screening of Yugoslavian vintage film Walter defends Sarajevo was also taken place in the gallery.
