Big Family: Brothers, Not Comrades was a project which explored the
dynamic between collective and personal histories through the telling of so-called important events from the perspective of the seemingly insignificant. Li Yilin presented a record which related to the mundane, arbitrary and personal. The work put sidelined events into centre stage, playing with the ways we distinguish the important from the relevant.
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