Bold display of revolution in sexual love

Beijing (CNS) — The exhibition Sex and Love of the New Generation is underway at Beijing's thriving artistic community known as the 798 Art Zone. The new generations' reflections on the body, emotion and sex has aroused public attention.

The contemporary art works are in the forms of photography, video, sculpture and more, all created by about 30 young artists who were born in the 1970s and 1980s.

Show sponsor Zhu Zhu said the Chinese gradually adopted an open attitude towards sex under the big umbrella of the reform and opening up policy established in 1978. These young artists experienced this evolutionary process as sexually awakening adolescents.

"The works express the young artists' personal journeys to adulthood but also serve as a window on the making of socio-sexual mores in contemporary China," said Zhu Zhu.

The exhibition is divided into six themes, including Memories of the Forbidden-Topic Era, Folk Carnival, World of Kawaii and Nomadic Belt. The subjects are unblushingly bold; for instance, Nomadic Belt touches on unconventional desires and abnormal practices such as homosexuality, sexual perversion and sexual abuse.

"To have sex in the name of love, desire or nothing at all is the free will of the people," said Wei Jia from Chongqing, "and here we celebrate this liberation of the human spirit."

A global creative planning contest called Durex Streaking runs the duration of the exhibit and aims to advocate safe sex practices.