Daniel Lee Postaer - Mother's Land
Deadbeat Club is happy to present MOTHER’S LAND, an exhibition of photographs by Daniel Lee Postaer.
In conjunction with the release of his first monograph, Mother’s Land, Lee Postaer is presenting a selection of large-format prints, delving into the many complexities of contemporary China and presenting a collection of scenes in which we see a shifting country unfold before our eyes.
Mother’s Land is the result of a long, introspective journey that led Daniel Lee Postaer in search of a missing part of his identity—the one left behind by his grandparents who, more than fifty years earlier and fleeing the communist regime, could take along a daughter, but were forced to abandon another.
In search of this “other half,” Postaer lived in China in the early 2000s, and returned several times in the second half of the 2010s, becoming a first-hand witness to the country’s contemporary developments.
In an all-encompassing portrait of urban China, in large-scale compositions embracing a multitude of characters and scenes, Mother’s Land shows us a country in the throes of economic and social transformations. A brutal country, too, that erases without scruple, without memory; which demolishes to rebuild further, bigger, higher. A country in which time moves violently fast, in which each year seems like five, and where the traces of Postaer’s previous life seem to evaporate.
