The talent award went to Zhang Xiaodi after the jury had three rounds of discussion. He received a grant from Martell Art Fund and he can choose to use the grant to either hold a solo exhibition or participate in an overseas art exchange program.
Zhang made a montage by overlaying images he captured in the last two years, to "copy the life of theater and make the reality surreal".
"Many artists used new-form presentations this year instead of traditional methods such as painting and sculpture. And they have better understandings of space," Dong says.
For example, artist Chu Bingchao spread three 12-meter-long and 1.8-meter-wide sheets of carbon paper on a street, to document vehicle tracks from 5 am to 6 pm on June 17, 2012. He also recorded the sound.
"By doing this I projected my perception of time and space," Chu explains.
Similarly, he used carbon paper and video to document his sleep. And he used gypsum powder to capture sea waves and rain.
Artist Lei Lei and French collector Thomas Sauvin accumulated more than 500,000 35-mm color film negatives, which captured moments of ordinary life. They made an animation by using about 3,000 photos developed and chosen from those negatives, which they collected from recycling stations in Beijing
The film won the best non-narrative short in 2013 Holland Animation Film Festival.
Chinese applicants wish a new life on Mars
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