Provenance:
With Max Protech Gallery, New York;
to a private collector, New York, 2006

Hai Bo, a Beijing-based photographer, specializes in highly conceptual photographs that document the changing social, economic, and environmental climate of contemporary Chinese society. Hai often re-stages photographs taken decades earlier, creating a juxtaposition of past and present in diptych compositions that emphasize China's rapid growth and change. Hai also records the passage of time, as in this bittersweet diptych of his elderly uncle, once a powerful figure in his youth.