Several days ago a curator talked about the forthcoming La Biennale di Venezia and Kassel Documenta, he said that some Japanese curators would organize a “shadow exhibition” with other Asian colleagues to resist the “hegemony” of Venice Binary Exhibition and Kassel Document Exhibition. The topic of “hegemony in contemporary arts” is a hot one in recent years. Sometimes do it singly and sometimes cooperate with each other, both a small group of foreign collectors together with the cultural authorities in a few important international Binary exhibitions and the State’s cultural departments, urged the emerging of a few “oligarchs” of China’s contemporary art. It is them who monopolized the important art’s resources such as international binary exhibitions and collectors.Only those artists and artworks that keep a sincere close relationship to their soil could be said as the real representatives of China’s contemporary art. It is better to take the “artists” and “artworks” exhibited at Venice Binary Exhibition and Kassel Document exhibition to be “shallows”. The discussion about “shadow exhibition” makes us think about the “Shadow relics” (that are the mimics of Sacred Buddhist Remains). Three shadow relics were found in the underground palace of Fa Men Temple (close to Xi’an City), and later they were called “Ying Gu (shadow relics)”. Zhao Puchu, a master of Buddhism used a metaphor “one moon shining over three rivers” to describe the relationship between real finger relics and its shadow relics.We could make mental association that the performances of Chinese artists and artworks at the three major art exhibitions (Venice Binary Exhibition, Saint Polo Binary Exhibition and Kassel Document Exhibition) are actually three “Shadow relics” of China’s contemporary art. The same reason, their performances at Gwangju Triennial, Yokohama Triennial and Taipei Binary Exhibition are “shadow relics” of the second level; and Shanghai Binary, Beijing Binary and Guangzhou Binary Exhibition are “Shadow relics” of the third level before they get the people’s hearts. Where is the “real finger relics”? “Shadow relics” have already hinted the information as the form, material and size, but after all they could not replace the real one.Where is the “real finger relics”? This is the main goal for holding the First Xi’an Document Exhibition.Every fortnight, the exhibition organizer will invite 5-10 artists to raise their topics for discussion. Then the generative and open-ended creation and discussion will be carried out in Textile City Art Workshop. Achievements of those Discussions will be shown online.Achievements will be shown in the forth coming three months since September 22, 2007. After that, a tour exhibition in other places will be started.