Guanyu Xu

"徐冠宇 Guanyu Xu (b.1993 Beijing) is an artist currently based in Chicago and Beijing. Influenced by the production of hegemonic ideology in American visual culture and his upbringing in Beijing, his practice extends from examining the production of power in image culture to the question of personal freedom and its relationship to political regimes. Xu negotiates this from his perspective as a Chinese gay man and an immigrant in the US. In his work, he migrates between mediums like photography, new media, and installation. These movements operate similarly to his displaced and fractured identity. In Xu's art practice, he strives to understand the politics between the U.S. and China, on both personal and transnational levels. Xu proposes a transnational position for viewers to examine and negotiate the interconnected oppressions in this contemporary moment of supposed freedom." https://www.xuguanyu.com/contact