Detail: Organized by the He Xiangning Art Museum and the OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, this exhibition has been since 1989 a hallmark event for the museum and has served as a standard for large-scale international exhibitions of contemporary art in China. The theme of this year's edition embodies a dual significance. In response to China's modernization, artists confront a rapidly developing economy that at once assaults and subverts traditional ideas and lifestyles. The conflict and pressure are evident - people are eager for a higher quality of life, enjoy convenient urban utilities, and partake in modernized consumerist practices. Yet, the inevitable competition within this process engenders a spate of social problems - cultural pluralism is being threatened, the cultural conditions in both urban and rural areas are undergoing immense pressure, and the cultural spirit and moral principles embodied within a simple and unaffected lifestyle are under attack. Second, the artistic impulse for creation arises from a conflict between reality and the artist's own self. Concealed within the recesses of the visual form, this impulse tests the artist's pre-existing concern for humanity and orientation of values. Artists in this exhibition insert `natural forms' into the cityscape through the concept of `non-sculpture' or `transcending sculpture'. `Natural forms' refers to the transformation of our previous visual understandings of sculpture by utilizing natural materials to convey complex and poetic ideas. It also presents artists' attitudes towards the relationship between urban planning and nature, their deep commitment to the power and form of nature, and an exploration into the possibilities and experimental nature of sculpture. Deriving from and reflecting on nature, these works are positioned between the man-made and natural worlds. They seek to arouse people's respect and love for nature, reconfigurate the vanishing environmental ecology, and create a new opportunity for people to meditate on the past and reconsider the future. Participant artists are Ai Weiwei, Arahmaiani (Indonesia), Bai Yiluo, Cao Hui, Feng Feng, Gu Wenda, Cheng Changwei, Cheng Dapeng, Harris Kondosphyris (Greece), Huang Zhiyang (Taiwan), Jesus Palomino (Spain), Li Jiwei, Li Hui, Liang Shaoji, Liu Jianhua, Qin Chong, Qin Yufen, Song Dong, Thanos Zakopoulos (Greece), UNMASK, Via Lewandowski (German), Wang Shugang, Yuan Shun, Xu Bing, Zhu Jinshi.