Galerie du Monde is delighted to share artist Guanyu Xu is featured in a recent article published on "Artforum China".
Written by Hindley Wang, the article focuses on Xu’s first solo exhibition “Duration of Stay” in Hong Kong at Galerie du Monde. She described that Xu’s practice explores fragmentation and reorganization not as destruction but rather as a sort of brokenness held in forbearance. Individual artworks from series including the “Traversable Landscape” and “Resident Aliens” were discussed. In her article, she also analysed that “Xu’s syntax speaks discipline with disorder, docility with turmoil—like a glitch in the system, elegant malfunctions whose location of error is at once obvious and illusive.
Read the full article on https://hindleywang.com/Guanyu
About “Duration of Stay” --
Fractured identity and forms of belonging are central to the artist’s practice and integral to all aspects of the work in the exhibition. Juxtaposing landscapes with an intimate view of personal spaces, the power of Xu’s imagination is founded upon the negotiation and reinterpretation of images over time, making space for multiplicity and growth.
“Duration of Stay” features Xu’s work from multiple series, including his long-term project Resident Aliens that addresses the idea of citizenship and form of belonging; his new Traversable Landscape series which reveals the border regime as a space inherently perpetuating imperialism, xenophobia and racism; a 144-part installation Suspension which expresses the artist's powerlessness as an alien in the US during the pandemic and the suspended experience of the deadlock created by political powers; and a video work Complex Formation, where Xu questions the visual hegemony that perpetuated his mother's vision and her influence over him.
