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Liu Yin’s cartoon-like paintings and drawings explore the ambivalences of love, nature, and consumerism...

In the eight-channel video installation Movement , Li Ming uses his body as a prop to interact with different means of transportation...

Itch explores the relationship between technology and daily human experience with a motorized arm that extends from within the gallery’s wall, moving up and down while holding a projector that shows a desperately scratching pair of hands....

Ben Shaffer’s Ben Deroy (2007) is part performance, part self-portrait, and part spiritual vision...

Converting is a piece about the Orang Laut, often called Sea Nomads, that inhabited the Riau archipelago...

This research-based artwork acts as a memorial to early twentieth century European exploration of China...

Will Rogan’s video Eraser (2014) shows a hearse parked in a clearing amidst leaf barren trees...

Peasant Sensation Passing Through Flesh – 3 consists of a massage chair fixed to a wall...

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

This untitled work from 2012 is a print originally made as part of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art’s artist limited edition series...

Retired Pillar represents the death and deterioration of legacy of colonial Shanghai...

The Tower of Babel is an installation of large-format photographs that forces the audience to occupy a central position through its monumental scale...

Although seemingly unadorned at first glance, Yang Xinguang’s sculptural work Phenomena (2009) employs minimalist aesthetics as a means of gesturing towards the various commonalities and conflicts between civilization and the natural world...

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

LAB (2013) conjures the body as the trace of a sooty hand appears, spectrally, on a crumpled paper towel...

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

Justice (2014) presents viewers with a curious assemblage: a wooden gallows with slightly curved spindles protruding from the topmost plank, which in turn is covered with rudimentary netting, the threads slackly dangling like a loose spider’s web or an rib cage that’s been cracked open...

MUM , the acronym used to title a series of Rogan’s small interventions on found magazines, stands for “Magic Unity Might,” the name of a vintage trade magic publication...

Hand Palm Echo 1 is a digital animation based on Christine Sun Kim’s staircase mural at The Drawing Center in New York (10 March – 22 May, 2022)...