Ge Bei/Ge Ba, Fabrics and rice glue, circa 1950s (1, 2, 3, 4)
The pieces of fabric utilized for these collages were either those that were found in peopleâs own homes or recuperated from others who threw them away. Back then, old ladies made them at home, at times in each otherâs company. Aware of the potential for exquisiteness in their creations, they treated the making ritual as if were a beauty pageant. Sometimes they even included fragments of precious embroidery sewn on silk.
âWhen I was a kid, my mother was making collages. She always kept aside the cloths she found. When the time came to make it, she first sorted all the cloth on a paper to the right and left to see if the colors were in harmony, then she began to glue them when she was satisfied with the colors. And thatâs how a work of art was born. When the weather was nice, the women of the village gathered at the entrance of a house to work together while chatting. And the collage became a real competition between the women. The one who made the most beautiful collage was like a champion who would have won a grand prize for sport.â (San Paolo, Brazil in 2002, Xin Yang, retired director of the Museum of the Forbidden City)Â
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