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2020-03-16
Since 2018, Beijing-born, Chicago-based artist Guanyu Xu has secretly created photographic installations throughout his childhood home in Beijing in order to queer his parents’ domestic space, transforming it into a scene of revelation, protest and reclamation. Using collected images from Western film and fashion magazines, photographs from family albums, as well as portraits of himself with other gay men, Xu enacts a deeply intimate and political performance.
Opposite – Facing North, Looking West, 2019
Exhibition runs through to April 4th, 2020
Yancey Richardson Gallery
525 West 22nd Avenue
New York
NY 10011
www.yanceyrichardson.com