City Scene

With City Scene, Zhao Liang not only documents an uncomfortable side of life in China, but he also takes advantage of the opportunity to create a strange, poetic portrait of his country’s contemporary metropolises. In short scenes or vignettes, he shows Beijing’s inhabitants dancing on a bridge, getting drunk, receiving massages, playing golf or being beaten until they bleed, reflecting on the stoicism with which Chinese citizens respond to their country’s urban and social conditions. —artdaily.com