Prune Nourry's Terracotta Daughter's

New York-based French artist Prune Nourry explored China’s gender imbalance by creating a female army of 116 life-size sculptures. Ms. Nourry’s Terracotta Daughters were modeled after eight female orphans from Mainland China, whom she was introduced to by the Children of Madaifu; a non-profit organization that aids orphans and children left behind by migrant worker parents. Ms. Nourry collaborated with a local artisan inside a Terracotta Warrior replica factory in Xi’an, China, for more then a year to ensure the sculptures style would emulate the iconic Terracotta Army that was unearthed nearby in 1974. The project provided three years of education to each participant.

Zachary Bako is an American artist living in Beijing. He spent seven years in New York before relocating to the Far East.