“For People, Food is the First Necessity: Qiu Zhijie’s Writing in a Market” Favorite
During the public vacation of May Day, also called International Workers’ Day, “For People, Food is the First Necessity: Qiu Zhijie’s Writing in a Market” was launched at the crowded Sanyuanli market in Beijing. The exhibition successfully aroused the enthusiasm of the public and it constituted an interesting contrast with the 16th Art Beijing 2021 which was located in the National Agricultural Exhibition Center that was two kilometers away from the Sanyuanli market. Where did this interesting feeling come from? Perhaps it was because it happened to hit a series of issues that art practitioners and the public have been concerned with recently, such as: What is the relation between art and life? How many possibilities are there for the connection between them? What on earth is art for?