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In Kan Xuan’s four-channel video Island , a series of objects like nail clippers, hairbrush, toothpaste, and house decorations are shot in close-ups...

The Third Seal—They Are Already Old...

A Slap in Wuhan documents Li Liao’s performance in Wuhan, China on January 8, 2011...

The image of rusted nails, nuts and bolts as shrapnel sandwiched between a fried Chicken burger highlights the contrast between decadence and destruction...

In his video work Beyond Geography , Li dramatizes the role of the artist-as-imitator to the point of sheer parody...

Cao Fei’s video La Town, 2014 depicts a mythical metropolis that has been destroyed by unknown forces...

In the video installation Tremble, Jiang projected the life-size images of seven naked men and women onto seven individual screens...

Canton Novelty by Fang Lu captures the adventure of a group of three girls, Ruohan, Lily and Zoe on a summer vacation in Guangzhou, China...

Kwan Sheung Chi’s work One Million is a video work depicting the counting of bills...

A mesmerizing experience of a vaguely familiar yet remote world, History of Chemistry I follows a group of men as they wander from somewhere beyond the edge of the sea through a vast landscape to an abandoned steel factory...

No World is an action-filled video work filmed inside an abandoned museum in the Songzhuang area outside Beijing...

In the video work Drag, a man in a dark room pulls on the end of a rope...

Sun’s animated film 21 Ke (21 Grams) is based on the 1907 research by the American physician Dr...

Mario Garcia Torres films a game of Charades among professional actors guessing the former North Korean dictator’s favorite Hollywood films...

In the work Cinema , Fang Lu explores in a meticulous yet un-dramatic — almost casual — way of how “the self” in our today’s life is a controlled and staged construction of oneself...

Sun Xun’s lushly illustrated, dynamic short film Mythological Time is a dreamy chronicle of rapacious industrial development, the mythical qualities of state propaganda, and the constancy of change, as experienced by an unnamed coal mining town...

In Up All Night, Waiting for the Chelsea Hotel Magic to Spark My Creativity Mario García Torres constructs and documents a hypothetical scene, situating himself within a lineage of artists and creatives that used to congregate at the historic hotel...

Mario Garcia Torres imagines cinematic devices to replay stories occasionally forgotten by Conceptual art...

603 Football Field presents a soccer game played inside a small student apartment in Shanghai...

After engaging primarily with video and photography for more than a decade, Chen turned to painting to explore the issue of urban change and memories—both personal and collective...