Nadine Stijns dissects recognisable yet exceptional, visually strong cultural identities that she discovers in her own social environment, as well as in Chinese culture. Although her starting point is the medium of photography, she keeps one foot each in photography and three-dimensional installations, and plunges into the material world of textiles and objects.

With the series After-Hour Shopping Mall and The Floating Population she makes a connection between consumerism in China and the migrant workers who are the foundation of China's economic progress. With her peculiar, acute insight she builds bridges between tradition and innovation, and between Western ideals and modern Chinese society.

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