Ju Duoqi 'The Vegetable Museum'
November 23, 2008 - January 24, 2009
Solo Exhibition – Photography
Opening on Sunday, November 23 rd, 2008
Reception at the Paris Beijing Photo Gallery II - 3pm

Paris Beijing Photo Gallery is delighted to announce the upcoming exhibition of The Vegetable Museum by Ju Duoqi from November 23rd 2008 to January 24th 2009.

Ju Duoqi is a young talented Chinese artist, full of creativity. In The Vegetal Museum series, she revisits in a stunning way some masterpieces of the western painting. Making use of vegetables and food of China’s everyday life – tofu, cabbage, ginger, lotus roots, coriander, sweet potato… – and through digital manipulation, she presents a puzzling series of vegetable compositions representing world famous paintings like Mona Lisa, The Cene by Leonard Da Vinci, The Dream by Pablo Picasso or Marilyn Monroe by Warhol.

Food and aliments are recurrent in Ju Duoqi’s works. She puts them out of their natural context to give them a second life. In The Vegetal Museum, the vegetables change of status: ordinary, coarse, insignificant, perishable, they become exceptional and lasting.

Born in 1973 in Chongqing, Ju Duoqi.is graduated from The Sichuan Fine Arts College. She currently lives and works in Beijing. Part of the One Child Policy generation, Ju Duoqi saw China huge transformation, the transition from an agricultural society to a post industrial society.

Colorful, creative, Ju Duoqi collages astonish. She creates her own language and destabilizes the boundary between reality and fiction. The vegetable and fictive world of Ju Duoqi is an invitation to the sensorial and provocative journey, like the artist herself.

VEGETABLE KINGDOM



The potato who dreamt
it was an eighteenth-century Irishman
now dreams it's a woman
robed in leafy emerald greens.