photo basel/berlin

Migrant Bird Space presents Chinese photographers Luo Yang, Lin Zhipeng (aka No. 223) and Yafei Qi who focus on a young Chinese subculture that defies imposed expectations and stereotypes. The conflicted, hedonistic youth behind their lenses stand for the photographers’ own generation in urban China: playful, provocative and daring, often imbued with a dark, repressed mysticism.

Between the virtual and the real, the artists’ quest is for an up-to-date and three-dimensional
meaning of Hong Kong. Over a one and a half decade-long timeline, they attempt to record
for posterity the lifeblood of the city as experienced from the ground up by some seldomdocumented
subcultures and what it meant for an extensive range of their young subjects.