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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...

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

Since 2007, Cao Fei has radically focused her work on Second Life, an online space that virtually mimics “the real world” and includes everything from the expression of ideas to economic investment...

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

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

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...

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

Empire’s Borders II – Passage and Empire’s Borders II – Workers are from the three-channel film installation Empire’s Borders II – Western Enterprise, Inc...

State Terrorism in the ultimate form of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood features a portrait of the artist wearing a zipped utilitarian jacket reminiscent of a worker’s uniform, with one arm behind his back as if forced to ingest a bundle of stick—a literal portrayal to the definition of fascism...

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

For his action, Safely Maneuvering across Lin He Road , Lin built a brick wall on one side of a busy main street in the city of Guangzhou...

The lengthy titles in Chen Xiaoyun’s work often appear as colophons to his photographs that invite the viewer to a process of self realization through contemplating the distance between word and image...

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...

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

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

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

A Portrait: Covering and Cleaning is an installation of six black-and-white video projections...

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

Mario Garcia Torres discovered the work of artist Oscar Neuestern in an article published in ARTnews in 1969...