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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Geng Xue created The Other Side in response to the death of a friend in a road accident. It is a dream-like landscape in which a female figure lies dead on the far side of a river. This relates to a rite in Chinese Daoist funerals when the soul of the deceased symbolically crosses a bridge to the world of the dead – a final moment of farewell. The figure of the dead woman resembles the dolls used by female patients in traditional Chinese medicine to point out to doctors where they had problems, without having to reveal their own bodies.
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