Group Exhibition "I’m not alien, I’m discontent"
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York
Exhibition Period: 6 April - 26 May 2024
Guanyu Xu's "Resident Aliens" series will be featured in the exhibition "I’m not alien, I’m discontent" at the Hessel Museum of Art in New York.
The exhibition brings together works that look at domestic spaces to complicate notions of home and belonging. The exhibiting artists—Utsa Hazarika, Leonardo Madriz, and Guanyu Xu—employ visually dense methods like layering, collage, and fragmentation to show the composite ways in which the idea of home is articulated, even through multiple dislocations.
In Xu’s Resident Aliens (2020–), the artist photographs domestic interiors that belong to people who hold temporary visas in the United States. Xu doesn’t depict the subjects or identify them, nor does he reveal where in the United States they live. Instead, he radically transforms their domestic spaces through spatial interventions, which he then photographs.
"I’m not alien, I’m discontent" explores the shifting notions of home as the viewer’s eyes migrate through the exhibition’s dense and morphing visuals, searching for a stable place to rest, to find there is none—only consistent instability.
Learn more --
https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/738-i-m-not-alien-i-m-discontent
