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Aug 3, 2019 · In the family dining room, Xu has repurposed some of his prints as placemats and, on the floral wallpaper in the background, mounted an imposing photograph of a different dinner table; the...
Apr 19, 2019 · Xu inserts countless made and collected photographs—including images from family albums, torn ads and editorials collected as a teen, and portraits of himself and other gay men—in complex tableaux to create a collective visual portrait.
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.
Guanyu Xu. Temporarily Censored Home, 2018–9 One Land To Another, 2014–8. Guanyu Xu’s work interrogates his experiences of being born into a conservative Chinese family and of living as a gay man in the USA.
In his recent series, Temporarily Censored Home (2018-2019), Xu covertly created intricately layered photographic installations in his parents’ home in Beijing, queering the normativity of this heterosexual space. By inserting a vast array of both made and collected photographs, including images from family albums, adverts and editorials he ...
Apr 6, 2021 · Guanyu Xu, Blind Massage, 2015 | Image courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery Born in 1993 in Beijing, China , Guanyu Xu’s photographic interventions offer an exploration of his complex personal history and identity.
Jackson Davidow, the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography, recently talked with artist Guanyu Xu about the development of his photograph Worlds Within Worlds, his artistic process, and public reception of his work.
