'Since turning from painting to photography in the late 1990s, Beijing-based artist Wang Qingsong has produced a stream of ambitious works that explore China's ongoing encounter with global consumer culture. Working in the manner of a motion-picture director, he conceives elaborate scenarios involving dozens of models that he typically stages on film studio sets. The resulting colour photographs often contain ironic references to classic Chinese artworks, which are reinterpreted with intentional awkwardness. The result is to throw a fresh light on present-day China, emphasizing its new material wealth, its uninhibited embrace of commercial values, and the social tensions arising from the massive influx of migrant workers to its cities.' (excerpt from Christopher Phillips' introduction, p. 2)

The accompanying catalogue features Wang's photographic and video works, including Pick up the Pen, Fight to the End (1997), Follow Me (2003), Competition (2004), Dream of Migrants (2005), Dormitory (2005), Skyscraper (2008), and so forth.