Allegories of Contamination [Yellow Rain, Yellow Earth]
Beijing New Art Project Gallery

The corruption of authoritative power through the infamous 6-10 office of secret police. When officials from a township birth control office got hold of Zhou Jiangxiong in May 1998, they hung him upside down, repeatedly whipped and beat him with wooden clubs, burned him with cigarette butts, branded him with soldering irons and ripped his genitals off. The 30 year-old farmer from Hunan province was tortured to death because the officials were trying to make him reveal the whereabouts of his wife, suspected of being pregnant without permission.