Canton Express (廣東快車) was an exhibition curated by Hou Hanru in 2003.
[1] According to participating artist Zheng Guogu, who was also responsible for the logistics, works had to be smuggled out of China as trade shipments and the artists had to travel via Hong Kong, Thailand and France to get to Venice.
This was due to the SARS outbreak which meant strict quarantine laws and travel restrictions were in place in Hong Kong and Mainland China at the time.
[2] In 2014 Yi donated the collection to M+, Hong Kong's museum of visual culture.
[3] Between 23.06.2017 and 10.09.2017 elements of the original Canton Express exhibition were re-staged at the M+ Pavilion, a temporary building at the West Kowloon Cultural District area in Hong Kong.