红专厂

This guide to Redtory in Guangzhou opens with a single sheet of paper stapled to a factory gate in 2019, an eviction order from Tianhe District's court giving everyone still working in these red-brick sheds until June 21st to leave. It goes back to 1956, when the compound opened as the Yingjinqian cannery, and to 2009, when young artists first slipped into its abandoned buildings and hung paintings where fish once dried, on a ten-year lease the city and the artists came to read very differently. Run your hand over the brick walls fired in 1956, the same walls that still stand around you.