Born in the 1980s, Chen Yun is an emerging Chinese artist. With her wild imagination, she successfully depicts networks of migrants through cities in her work, The Moving Spirit of the City. She compares the city to a fermenting organic body-a maternal body, which presents relentless challenges to the human body and soul. The city is the aggregation of desires, and has a mystical allure that seduces the inflow of more people inebriated with the dream of realizing some extraordinary ideal. As it assimilates these migrants and visitors, the city grows and expands with the energy of its new denizens, creating a magnificent and lively scene. Because of the powerful allure of cities, many people move from one urban locale to another, their own identities redrawn constantly as they seek fulfillment of their dreams and ideals. (Zhang Qing)