Hwee Lie Bléhaut

An exploration of the complex relationship between East and West through an analysis of the artistic and cultural development of a peculiar object, the screen.

Capturing the essence of late 18th-century China in a hundred miniatures seems an impossible task. Yet, on the orders of the French Minister of State, Bertin, the Chinese Catholic priests Aloys Ko and Etienne Yang completed the assignment, revealing a strange and fascinating world that was very d...