Heritage lost: how two art and design exhibitions frame southern China’s transformation

Next to the Guangdong Museum of Art on Er-Sha Island sits the Museum of Overseas Chinese, a tribute to the diaspora that has left the country, largely fr om southern ports like Guangzhou. Perhaps in response, a work that questions this presumed portability and durability of Chinese identity and heritage has been installed in the plaza between the fifth Guangzhou Triennial and first Asia Biennale (until 10 April)—Yuan Gong’s Traces: Collecting Soil of Zhougong Temple (2015), inflatab