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Scroll painting by Yun-Fei Ji, The Village and its Ghosts (ink and watercolor on Xian paper, 15.75" x 684.25", 2014. Installation View at Prospect.3:, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans). The image illustrates a key mid-career body of work by Yun-Fei Ji in the 2010s: his monumental scrolls and paintings that examined contemporary stories of survival amid ecological and social disruption globally driven by industrialization. This image shows his cinematic, nearly 60-foot-long scroll, The Village and its Ghosts (2014), which offered a sense of perpetual transition and history repeating itself through an amalgam of settings and signifiers: the devastation of New Orleans, Chinese migrants displaced by hydroelectric megaprojects, and scenes of Columbus Park in Manhattan. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Yun-Fei Ji. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career body of work by Yun-Fei Ji in the 2010s, when he produced monumental scrolls and paintings that examined contemporary stories of survival amid ecological and social disruption driven by industrialization and its effects, both in China and the US. These works synthesize old and new representational modes, subverting the classical idealism of centuries-old Chinese scroll and landscape painting traditions with metaphor, symbolic allusion and devices such as caricature and the grotesque (often folkloric ghosts and wraiths, for example) to create tumultuous, Kafka-esque worlds. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this fundamental body of work in his overall art, which brought Ji ongoing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Ji's work of this type and this work itself is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Yun-Fei Ji, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.