Hindley Wang reviews UCCA Beijing's exhibition "Dream Time" where Guanyu Xu's Resident Aliens series is featured.
What is taking place in Dream Time, UCCA’s inaugural show of 2024? For one, it cracks open the possibility for a new share of exhibitions in this seventeen-year-old institution, possibly setting a precedent for future thematic exhibitions enlisting international rosters. Curated by Fang Yan, Dream Time features fifteen artists and groups from all over the world, including many queer-identifying artists. The curatorial statement shares surprising affinity with the thematics of the Whitney Biennial 2024 over its contemplation of the real and issues of embodiment and identity.
Hindley Wang is a New York-based freelance writer and translator from Shanghai. She is interested in the aesthetics, politics, and poetics of transcultural practices and postcolonial futures. She received her MA in Art History from the University of Chicago and BA from Vassar College.
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