The SFAH artist Deng Rongbin’s installation, titled “My Father and Mother,” is made up of two bottles placed on a black table, where scores of black and white photographs of his father and mother, taken when they were young, are scattered casually.

The SFAH artist Zou Wei displays two paintings from his “Flying People” series, which was inspired by his perception of cultural differences between Chinese and Western societies. A graduate of the Russian State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg in 2004, Zou is now teaching in Shenzhen University.

SFAH artist Shen Lu displays her installation, titled “Cocooning,” which she created using red yarn, a medium that’s become her trademark.

Du and 20 other young and ambitious artists rented the seventh floor of an abandoned factory in Nanshan District at the end of 2006 and turned the floor into 21 workshops.

By the end of 2007, SFAH had become increasingly influential in South China as a base for contemporary experimental art and had drawn more than 40 artists from all over the country.

The group of artists was relocated to Idea Land in Bao’an District in March last year after a fire destroyed the former location in Nanshan District in February.

“Influenced by the global economic crisis, the contemporary Chinese art scene throughout the country has been cooling down since the beginning of this year,” Du said. “However, we’ve decided to stage such a joint exhibition because we believe the market for contemporary art is far from mature and still needs to be developed with great effort by us.”