Works by Guanyu Xu exhibited as part of group show: "Visual Kinship" at the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover.
Dates: 30 August 2025 - 29 November 2025
Location: Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
gdm is pleased to announce Guanyu Xu's participation in the group show "Visual Kinship", at the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover. Xu exhibits two archival pigment prints: "YN-09152008-11072020" (2020), and "RR-08212010-05012021" (2021), from his "Resident Aliens" series, in which the artist photographs homes and personal belongings of participants holding different visa statuses in the United States. Xu's provocative photographs explore the complexities of identity formation, while negotiating dynamics of power and assumed stereotypes.
"Visual Kinship" explores how photography defines, challenges, and reimagines the concept of family. Across diverse historical and contemporary works, the exhibition examines how images reflect and disrupt family structures shaped by colonialism, migration, transnational adoption, and queer intimacies.
Photography plays a pivotal role in bridging the personal and political, offering a lens through which kinship can be recognized, claimed, and contested. The exhibition also considers how visual culture fosters alternative networks of belonging and care, expanding the notion of family beyond biological or traditional frameworks.
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Visual Kinship | Hood Museum of Art, Hanover
