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"....Another work I wish to cite is Sha Yeya's Yangjiang (2003), which presents a movable cupboard on wheels that opens on every side.
Inside reveals itself as the model of a building, with post-boxes, electric meters, television sets, and little monitors.
The spectator's image is filmed and projected onto the monitors. Evident here, next to the interactive and open nature of
the work, is again the association of different layers, the cupboard as commodity and house model, the spectator and his or her image, the real object and its virtual reproduction. Association and the overlapping of different layers can be linked
with the wandering and tracking character of nomad thought. The employment or visual and conceptual networks of association is typical of contemporary art from Canton. It sometimes draws on the ambivalence of the real object or real life and its virtual reproduction. This can be seen in the work of Zheng Guogu, for example his Yangjiang Youth, in Yang Yong's
photographs, and in Chen Shaoxiong's three-dimensional collages of streets pedestrians and buildings. Both Zheng and Yang use photography to represent supposedly "authentic" scenes of the everyday life of youths from the Pearl River Delta while, in fact, it is their friends posing for the camera. Chen takes photographs of his collages on the street. The fictitious realism of these works, as well as the planned and devised snapshot aesthetics, contribute to the idea that images that submerge life are as fictitious as Hong Kong film, Hong Kong television drama serials and short, fast-pace commercials that inundate the daily lives of Cantonese
people".

By Martina Koppel Jiechang, Yishu Marc 2004