Bruno Baltzer and Leonora Bisagno

The work on “Mao” by Bruno Baltzer and Leonora Bisagno (a Franco-Italian couple living in Luxembourg), produced during their artistic residency in China, reflects quite well the different layers of appropriation of a representative image such as the iconic portrait of Mao Zedong at Tienanmen Square in Beijing viewed through the different smartphone screens of the tourists photographing the Mao fresco.