Their exhibition, like Lu Xun's stories, pulls from some of the hardest times of Chinese history, intertwined with Asian and international resistance movements of the 1960s, 1990s and 2010s, to show how the human spirit endures like the titular weeds.
Lu Xun's example is a reminder of the earlier upheavals of the 20th century, when local warlords and Japan carved China up after the end of the Qing dynasty, the ruling Nationalists slaughtered leftists, and the people faced the Japanese occupation, the civil war, the famine caused by Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
The triennale is concerned with 'the resilience of individuals' and the potential to 'build your own world even with very limited possibilities and resources', Lu tells The Art Newspaper.
'Even though we are confronted with situations of hopelessness, resilience is our kind of hope.' ... 'But still we need to think independently and critically, so we can go on with life.'
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