
Chinese artist Shen Yuan's exhibition work“le Première Voyage”( The first
trip) was shown in the Virgini Garden on 7 June.Consisting of enlarged milk
bottles and nipples and a video showing documentaries of the first trips made by
adopted children to the West, she explored an increasingly frequent phenomenon
in the age of global communication and migration.
The artist stated: “As a woman and an immigrant artist, I feel this issue is
closely related to my own life. I’m concerned with the future of these children.
Although they may be able to grow up in a comfortable environment, they would
still have to face the question of cultural and racial difference and the
difficulty of losing their real parents in the future.”