Each area or urban setting contains its own life, lineage, and memories that are inherently complex, overlapping, fragmented, chaotic, and even contradictory. This is because such memories originate from the desires, actions, pursuits, and creations of many individuals. When an area or city is uniformly reorganized through urban planning, then their memories are erased and all creativity is destroyed. What remains in culture is a barren desert. Therefore, this exhibition is not so much an attempt to exhibit realistic images of a “barren” but to enact a “pruning” of realistic representations. Perhaps, the featured artworks present a kind of “reality” found in Northeast contemporary art, or just one aspect of “reality”.

As one of rare galleries existing in Beijing for ten years, Soka Art Beijing witnessed the growth of art market as well as the great change of Chinese art in the ten years. In this exhibition, Commemoration ---10th Anniversary of Soka Art Beijing, many remarkable works will be shown in the two parts, Memories of the Past and Windows to the Future.