ArtReview has published a review of Chen Qiulin's Heartland, the Shenzhen survey that gathered more than two decades of the artist's video and photographic work. Writing in the magazine's October 2026 issue, Hok-hang Cheung frames the exhibition as an inquiry into displacement: when everything that anchors memory disappears, where does the past live? The show ran at Pingshan Art Museum from 30 May to 30 August. Chen grew up in Wanzhou, in southwestern Chongqing, a town that fell directly in the path of the Three Gorges Dam. When the dam was completed in 2003, close to half of her hometown was submerged, and more than 260,000 residents were forced to relocate within the municipality. In Farewell Poem (2002), filmed at a demolition site in Wanzhou before the waters rose, Chen appears in costume as Consort Yu from the classic opera Farewell My Concubine, drawing on the martial arts and dance lessons of her childhood. Her brightly coloured dress against the monochrome rubble stages the collision of ideal and reality — a note of the absurd inside traumatic change. The Garden (2007) extends the theme to the workers displaced alongside her. Chen hired Chongqing's bangbang men — the city's once-ubiquitous porters — to carry oversized, trophy-like bouquets of artificial peonies through the streets to a distorted recording of Wahaha, a 1956 patriotic children's song. The peony traditionally signifies prosperity and belonging in Chinese culture; here the blooms are fake, rootless emblems drifting in the hands of men who have lost their homes. The later Another Day series (2014–16) turns to elderly unmarried women in rural Guizhou who refuse to leave their ancestral villages even as their families move to the cities. The review notes that the venue itself mirrored the subject. Pingshan Art Museum sits in a newly developing Shenzhen district of construction sites and transient communities, where displacement is largely voluntary — young people leaving hometowns for megacity work — yet the psychic weight of uprootedness lingers all the same.