Often biographical and context-specific, Ma Qiusha’s works encompasses video, photography, painting and installation. An overarching theme in her work is the conflicts and dilemmas encountered in daily and ordinary experience. Others are the intergenerational gaps as well as the signs and symbols of the complex socio-cultural transformations that took place in the recent high-speed decades and deeply affected personal and collective memories of the society. Bringing together relationships, objects, structures and stories as a way to subvert dominant readings of their histories, her works stand out as increasingly crucial documents of China’s tensions and its political and social shifts.