Guanyu Xu's selected works from the "Resident Aliens" Series are featured in the group exhibition "my hands are monsters who believe in magic", presented by the Armory Center for the Arts.
Dates: 25 April - 14 December 2025
Location: Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, US
"my hands are monsters who believe in magic" is a group exhibition that explores an artist’s capacity for the radical reimagination of the self through a process of unmaking and remaking. Featuring contemporary photography, video, and ceramics by ten artists from the Asian diaspora—Alex Anderson, Tommy Kha, Maggie Lee, Jarod Lew, Cathy C. Lu, Diane Severin Nguyen, Miraj Patel, Leonard Suryajaya, Guanyu Xu, and Amia Yokoyama—the exhibition highlights the liberatory possibilities of self-construction and reinvention. The works on view navigate the endless, messy, contradictory, and sometimes grotesque process of understanding oneself in relation to history, materiality, and community. The title of the exhibition quotes a line from Ocean Vuong’s poem “Dear Sara” in Time Is a Mother. my hands are monsters who believe in magic is organized by guest curator Kris Kuramitsu.
Image courtesy of the Armory Center for the Arts.
Learn more--
https://www.armoryarts.org/exhibitions/2025/monsters
