Painful growth

Artist Na Wei uses blue and white strips, which he borrows from patients' clothes, to imply the predicament and stress of the only-children generation.

Like Na, the only-child generation grew up benefiting from China's opening-up and economic boom. They were pampered by parents and grandparents but were also exposed to radical social transition. Now they are criticized for being too weak to bear the hardships of life.

In Na's Spring Fatigue series, an only-child, dressed in a white and blue striped shirt, sits daydreaming on a carousel horse. But when it comes to an actual horse - read the real world - he feels helpless and wants to recoil.