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DiaporamaThe Progress of Village Wen
2016
48.0 x 340.0 cm
The scroll depicts the forced migration of villagers from their rural homes to the city due to a governmental land policy in contemporary China. At once literal and symbolic, the composition evolves from mundane drudgery to hallucinatory chaos, suggesting that mental disintegration follows the physical dislocation. The title of the painting has an air of irony.As the people leave their ancestral land, village ghosts move alongside the living. The ominous supernatural imagery foreshadows what awaits the villagers in the city. In adapting to urban life, many of them lose their sense of identity and purpose, which was rooted in an agrarian community. The collapsing scaffolding at the end reflects both an inner and an outer reality.
Yun-Fei Ji (1963 –)
Yun-Fei Ji is a Chinese-American painter synthesizing classical scroll painting with contemporary social commentary. His Kafkaesque worlds explore ecological disruption, cultural revolution & survival in China and the US. Featured at MoMA, Whitney &
About this artwork
- Title: The Progress of Village Wen
- Artist: Yun-Fei Ji
- Year: 2016
- Original dimensions: 48.0 x 340.0 cm
- Format: Panoramic
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Color palette: Neutrals
- Main color: Gray
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