Sze Tsung Leong
Yihaoqiao, Yuzhong District, Chongqing
2001
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Sze Tsung Leong
Yihaoqiao, Yuzhong District, Chongqing
2001
Physical Qualities
Chromogenic print, Framed: 40 × 49 in.
Sheet: 1016 x 1219 mm. (40 x 48 in.)
Image: 813 x 1016 mm. (32 x 40 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased in Memory of Roger M. Dalsheimer with funds contributed by his Friends
Object Number
2006.85
Leong’s History Images series presents Chinese cities as they are being rapidly reinvented and rebuilt. This image records the demolition of a traditional district, ringed by new construction. What was once a long, slow-moving process of urban change has
become something the artist has called the destruction of history, a message promoted by the Cultural Revolution’s slogan “Smash the Old World, Build the New World.” Leong has described his desire to represent “the empty moment between the erasure of
the past and the arrival of the future.”
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2006; Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Kristen Hileman, BMA. "Seeing now: Photography Since 1960," February 20-May 15, 2011.
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography," November 4, 2018-March 24, 2019.
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography," November 4, 2018-March 24, 2019.
