Tell me you would not differantiate between an artist working in bejing and one working in berlin if they did not tell you were they came from?
Correct, with a qualification.
If I only see the artwork or a piece of text with no contextual signals, I cannot reliably determine whether it comes from Beijing or Berlin. There is no inherent “location tag” in creative output.
However, in practice, differences often do appear indirectly through patterns such as:
* Themes and references (politics, history, social norms)
* Aesthetic conventions (composition, symbolism, material use)
* Language and conceptual framing
* Institutional influence (e.g., art school traditions, censorship, market orientation)
For example, an artist shaped by Beijing’s context may reflect different constraints, iconographies, or philosophical traditions than one shaped by Berlin’s art scene. But these are probabilistic signals, not guarantees.
So:
* Without context → no reliable differentiation
* With subtle cues → possible inference, but uncertain
* With explicit information → clear distinction
The key point is that creative locality influences work, but it does not determine it in a way that is always detectable.
