Mao, who curves himself along the edge of the paper

2010 - Painting (Painting)

Liu Yin


Liu Yin’s cartoon-like paintings and drawings explore the ambivalences of love, nature, and consumerism. Their scenes belong to the realm of childhood dreams, expressing both desire and anxiety through delicate colors and playful figures.


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Movement
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Li Ming

2014

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

Itch
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Yang Guangnan

2011

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Golden Bridge
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Lin Yilin

Golden Bridge is part of “Golden Journey”, a series of site-specific performances and installations created during Lin’s residency at Kadist San Francisco...

Be Oblivion, in Disconnect
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Natasha Wheat

2011

Wheat’s work is built on a strong conceptual framework that weaves together commentary on social and political issues and the radical potential for change...

Converting
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Zai Kuning

2014

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

Kerosene Triptych
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Natasha Wheat

2011

Natasha Wheat’s Kerosene Triptych (2011) is composed of three images, one each from the digital files of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Field Museum tropical research archive...

603 Football Field
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Qing Zhang

2006

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

ONE MILLION (Japanese Yen)
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Kwan Sheung Chi

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Phenomena
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Yang Xinguang

2009

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...

Silencer #16 & #17
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Will Rogan

2010

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...

The Tower of Babel: Independence of the country
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Du Zhenjun

2010

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

The Tower of Babel: The Carnaval
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Du Zhenjun

2010

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

Telescopic Pole (Tennis Balls Red) and (Tennis Balls)
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Chadwick Rantanen

2010

Telescopic Pole is an adjustable telescopic pole that extends vertically from floor to ceiling and is held up by its own internal pressure...

Collapse
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Will Rogan

2007

Shot in the streets of Tokyo, Collapse , is a meditation on the passing of time and on the complicated way in which we are smashed between the past and the future...

Casa de la cabeza (House of the head)
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Bernardo Ortiz

2011

Casa de la cabeza (2011) is a drawing of the words of the title, which translate literally into English as “house of the head.” Ortiz uses this humorous phrase to engage the idea of living in your head....

Cinema
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Fang Lu

2013

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...

Retired pilar
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Jin Shan

2010

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