Highlights From the First Guangzhou Airport Biennale
By Pamela Wong
Since Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms in the late 1970s, urbanization has been rife in China’s Pearl River Delta area. The phenomenon has entailed the migration of people from the region’s rural outskirts to industrial centers like Shenzhen and Guangzhou, and, following this, the abandonment of buildings on the cities’ fringes. Titled “Extreme Mix,” the first Guangzhou Airport Biennale spotlighted one such locale in the Pearl River Delta region that had been left to decay amid the country’s rapid economic development—Fenghe Village.
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