A Sense of Belonging

Huang Qingjun's works depict a geographic inclusiveness in new China through the pictorial vocabulary of an emerging consumer culture. Connoting inexhaustible plenitude, images of objects purchased online through technologies and a gargantuan logistics infrastructure only made available in recent years raise questions on how individuals are celebrating modern lifestyles. The country is the world's largest e-commerce market, and is expected to have more than US$ 1 trillion in online retail sales by 2018, according to some estimates. In January, Huang extended a series initiated in 2003 titled, "Family Belongings," to focus on the household goods purchased online by families living in some of the least developed areas of China.