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Xu Shun's use of found photographic materials and images, derived as they are from the whole array of popular Chinese press and media sources, should not be seen necessarily as a pursuit of a direct social engagement with the events depicted - though this could equally be a bi-product. They are after all images that are taken from the aesthetics of the commonplace, a translation of the mundane into an elevated sense of the real. As Xu Shun's use of such sources implies, they necessarily provoke chosen point of departure in order for him to make a painting. Therefore when looking at Xu Shun's images you are left in no doubt that you are looking primarily at a painting.

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