Opening time：4:30pm,15th June,2013
Duration: 2013.06.16 -- 2013.06.29
Location: 2nd floor exhibition hall of building 2

The moment a human being is born to this world, it begins a trip toward the end of life.It may be a life of gloriousness or plainness.In the end we are only passers-by and will return to nothingness. This fatalistic belief was already part of the world view of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Life is predestined. But the experience of life is like a travel in the spiritual world of different cultures, world views or value systems. The earth provides us with water and air. It breeds and feeds all creatures selflessly.The unity of heaven and mankind is supposed to be the best footnote to this beautiful and harmonious image of the world. The multitude of the world is created through our travelling in life. The glamorous light of the spiritual world full of human wonders brightens the whole universe. Our wings of imagination grew in the time of the fairy-tales of the ocean-filling spirit Jingwei and the goddess Nvwa who mended the sky. If our ancesters were able to travel through time, they will see that the tales of their times have become reality.
However, our desires grow immensely and the endeavors go beyond the sky and earth. Natural resources are being irrationally extorted. The beautiful planet is suffering from unprecedented destruction. As we pursue the development of mankind, we are devouring the earth that breeds us. When I look up and gaze into the great creation, a worry always rises in my mind:
if there is a destiny and an end to this material being, is mankind able to create another planet where we can live?
City Images, Broad Views and the Sky Bridge are a series of works that create a story about the homeward trip under such interrogation. As Gauguin once asked, where do we come from, who are we, and where are we heading? These are the questions that I cannot answer. All that I can do is to build a sky bridge to the afar like the Noah's ark, and try to make up a new fairytale for the homeward trip of tomorrow.

Zhao Xiaodong

Zhao Wenhua