Adelaide Festival Centre Presents Generation C Exhibition 7/4 Thru 8/2

Adelaide Festival Centre in association with Australian Centre for Photography present Generation C: New Chinese Photomedia in an Age of Change. Consumerist, connected and self-aware - born in the seventies, they are China's first "me" generation. Generation C is an exhibition of work by young photomedia artists from mainland China who reflect the ambivalence of their times, on display in the Artspace Gallery (upstairs in the Dunstan Playhouse) from July 4 through August 2, 2009.

An Australian Centre for Photography touring exhibition, curated by Alisdair Foster, artists with work on display include Chen Nong, Chen Xiaoling, Li Guangxin, Liu Lijie, Liu Dawei, Qiu Zhen and Yang Guowei.

The artists' work represents a generation which is vain yet vulnerable; wired yet lonely. They ride the rollercoaster of ‘progress' while wistfully dreaming of the past. Abandoning any notion of the photograph as a document of the real each work is a performance, a visual fable that finds its truth in imaginative resonance rather than hard evidence.

Playful yet earnest, while some artists wield satire like a sword, others evoke a quiet melancholy for lost tradition. Others still, weighed down by the burden of duty to family, ancestors, community, state and the competitiveness born of consumerism, simply imagine what it would be like to fade into another world or fly away like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.

The exhibition will be officially opened at 6pm on Friday 3 July by Gregory Ackland, Coordinator Photography and Media Arts, Adelaide Centre For The Arts (TAFE SA), who will also conduct a free floor talk at 5:30pm before the opening.

At the Artspace Gallery, Adelaide Festival Centre. Exhibition runs 4 July - 2 August 2009 at 12noon - 5pm Wednesday - Saturday, 12noon - 4pm Sunday. Free entry. For further information check out: www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au.