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Aug 3, 2019 · In his parents’ room, where the fingers of his father’s military uniform protrude from an open drawer, Xu has piled the bedsheets with nearly life-size portraits depicting his own intimate ...
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.
By inserting a vast array of both made and collected photographs, including images from family albums, adverts and editorials he collected as a teen, and portraits of himself and other gay men, Xu reclaims his home as a queer space of freedom and rebellion.
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.
Jun 20, 2019 · Straddling a line between installation art, sculpture, and photographic document, he combines images from his childhood and adolescence with portraits of his present-day self and other gay men, forcing an otherwise censored space to recognize his humanity.
© Guanyu Xu, Reanimated Bedroom, 2019. Courtesy of Gaotai Gallery (Urumqi) When we announced the 2020 Exposure Award winner Xu Guanyu from Gaotai Gallery last September we caught up with the photographic artist to discover more about his intriguing works.
Chen Yidan (陈一丹, born 1971), also known as Charles Chen, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Tencent, founder of the Chen Yidan Charity Foundation, and founder of the Yidan Prize Foundation.
