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"My mother was unjustly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution in China. Just because her family fled to another country, my mother was imprisoned and branded a foreign spy. Her family's ancestral home was confiscated, and her family's personal effects were robbed. Everything was damaged if it could not be taken away, even the books were burned. They turned her life upside down. It was a mess. After being beaten by a group of Red Guard thugs, she was then sent to the countryside to feed pigs daily and to do farm work to undergo so-called ""ideological reforms"". This experience was an unexpected catastrophe for my mother. It is a complicated process to reflect on human nature from obscurity to awakening. Throughout history many people have paid with their lives. Little progress has been made in exploring and knowing the facts. If this kind of catastrophe is still repeating, if society continues to encourage fanaticism, if patriotism or populism is still without humanism, what do we face then?"

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"Jingjing Lin is a conceptual artist whose work deals primarily with social-political themes. Lin explores the depths of social and personal identity in the context of modern society, often examining themes such as confusion and quest, existence and absence, constraint and resistance through a lens of paradox. Of particular focus is how individuals define themselves amongst the effects of the outside world, vis-à-vis culture, politics, history and the economy. Her artwork spans painting, drawing, performance, installation, mixed media, sound, light, photography, and video. She is also well known for layering thread over painting, installation, and other mixed media to create dazzling worlds. The surreal effect created via this method immerses the viewers into another consciousness. Jingjing was profiled by TATE research Center: Asia, as part of their ongoing study of "" Women Artist in Contemporary China"". Her works have been exhibited in major public museums including Neues Kunstforum in Cologne(Germany), the National Art Museum of Chile in Santiago, the Long Museum in Shanghai, the Ivam in Valencia(Spain), the Kunstraum in Vienna, Galeria Herold in Bremen, Saint Mary's University Art Museum in Halifax(Canada), the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery in Philadelphia, Ljubljana Castle in Slovenia, the Tikanoja Art Museum in Vaasa (Finland), the Nanjing Museum, Guangzhou Art, museum, the Du Land Modern Art Museum (Shanghai) and Song Zhuang Art Museum(Beijing) in China. Jingjing's work has been reviewed in major publications such as Asia Art Pacific, Artforum, Artnet News, AsiaArt, Southern Weekly, Kolaj magazine, Randian, China Daily, Luxuo, Hong Kong Economic Journal, South China Morning Post, etc. with her work showing in Art Basel Hong Kong, Art021 in Shanghai, Asia Now in Paris, Sydney Contemporary, Taipei Dang Dai, GIGE Beijing, Art Shenzhen, Art Beijing, Art Silicon Valley San Francisco, Art Stage Singapore, etc. Her work has been sold by both Sotheby's and Christie's. Jingjing's large-scale (25000 sqf. museum space) solo show: I Want to Be With You Forever, was curated by Li Xianting, the renowned independent art critic and curator of contemporary Chinese art, known as the ""Godfather of Chinese contemporary avant-garde"" for Song Zhuang Art Museum in Beijing (2009). Richard Vine, managing editor from Art in America wrote about her work: ""In paintings, altered objects and installations, she addresses some of the most wrenching themes imaginable-death, loss, loneliness, betrayal- with remarkable sophistication and restraint, even at times a touch of humor. JingJing's contribution to contemporary Chinese art is thus two-fold. She couples a focus on individual experience (in what has for centuries been a collectivist culture) with art-making of unassuming skill. The amalgam generates a distinct form of beauty-existentialism melded with subdued artistry and permeated with simple human care. In short, Lin's vision is compassionate, transcultural, and mature"""

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