Guanyu Xu's Resident Aliens Hong Kong Project, MM-06292010-06292023 (2023) has been acquired by the Getty Museum.
Guanyu Xu's Resident Aliens presents photographic installations within immigrants' interior spaces to examine their personal histories and complex experiences. Xu creates ephemeral installations within private space, transforming the interior into a hall of mirrors that captures immigrants' life and blurs the boundaries between the familiar and foreignness, private and public, belonging and alienation.
For Xu’s first solo exhibition at gdm Hong Kong in 2023 titled “Duration of Stay”, he profiled a domestic helper from the Philippines, a scholar from Northern China, and a refugee from Egypt through his photography, and temporarily reconstruct their living room into a dense mosaic, unveiling a new perspective on the life of these three 'resident aliens' in the context of Hong Kong.
