6 Artists Documenting China’s Migrant Workers
The big featured article on the New York Times’s front page this morning pertained to the skyrocketing unemployment rates among one of the most disadvantaged workforces in the world: migrant workers in China. The number of those workers without jobs has doubled in the last five weeks, reaching roughly 20 million. Though often rendered invisible on the world stage for lack of any kind of union representation or legal recourse, China’s hordes of migrant workers are frequent fodder for contemporary artists. Here are Listicles’ favorite 6 Artists Documenting China’s Migrant Workers.
Painter Liu Hiaodong
Zhange Ke Jia’s Still Life (2006)
Photographer Edward Burtynsky
- “Manufacturing #18″ Cankun Factory, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, 2005 by Edward Burtynsky
Painter, sculptor and installation artist Fang Lijun
"Untitled 01" by Fang Lijun
Yun Chang’s Up The Yangtze (2007)
Photographer Chen Jiagang
- “The Great Third Front - Theatre Warehouse” by Chen Jiagang, 2008
Know of another depictor of China’s migrant workers that we missed? Let us know below.
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