Guanyu Xu's Resident Aliens and Temporarily Censored Home series featured in The New Yorker, reviewed by Vince Aletti.
Vince Aletti writes: "The photographer Guanyu Xu, born in China, based in Chicago, creates densely layered images of installations in domestic spaces that make them look like exploding scrapbooks. In 2018, he began the series “Temporarily Censored Home,” for which he queered large-scale color images of his parents’ house in Beijing with a dizzying array of snapshots and appropriated photos reflecting Xu’s otherwise unacknowledged life as a gay man. His claim to a vivid place in his family’s home, however fleeting, was both playful and powerful. Xu’s new series, “Resident Aliens,” was made in the apartments of immigrants who are hoping to become U.S. citizens but are still making their way through the legal process. By combining their family photos with pictures he made in their homes, Xu helps them stake a claim on a space that looks as fragile as a house of cards."
The New Yorker | Guanyu Xu's Powerful Photographs of Immigration Limbo
