Marcus Reubenstein, Street Mahjong (Guangzhou), 2009, photograph. Courtesy: The artist and Art Space on the Concourse. 

Over a period of ten years from 2009 to 2019, Marcus Reubenstein travelled to more than 30 cities across China, capturing candid images of ordinary Chinese people both in traditional and modern settings. The 20 works for this exhibition were selected from a total of more than 22,000 images; none of the subjects posed for these images. The artist’s hope is to capture moments in such a way as to prompt the viewer to consider the individual subjects against the backdrop of an enormous country of 1.4 billion people.