• Cui Jie: ‘This kind of communal life is long gone, and memories of it are fading away’

    Cui Jie: ‘This kind of communal life is long gone, and memories of it are fading away’
    In her new exhibition in Southend, the Chinese artist explores abandoned visions of modernist living in 1920s Essex and 1950s ShanghaiIn the late 1920s and early 1930s, two sleepy corners of Essex woke up to the modern world. Czech footwear giant Tomáš Baťa’s model town rose from nothing in the East Tilbury marshes: a workers’ community with everything a short walk from the front doors of its flat-roofed houses, from the shoe factory to the football pitch, the ball

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