WHAT
As the Chicago-based Chinese artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, the presentation features works from multiple series. Influenced by the production of ideology in American visual culture and shaped by a conservative familial upbringing in China, his practice extends from examining the production of power in photography to the question of personal freedom and its relationship to political regimes. In his work, the artist migrates between mediums including photography, new media, and installation. These movements operate similarly to his displaced and fractured identity, which he negotiates from the perspective of a Chinese gay man.

WHY
The artist’s long-term project ‘Resident Aliens’ addresses the idea of citizenship and form of belonging; his new ‘Traversable Landscape’ series reveals the border regime as a space inherently perpetuating imperialism, xenophobia and racism. There is also a Hong Kong project that unveils the life of three ‘resident aliens’ (a domestic helper from the Philippines, a scholar from Northern China, and a refugee from Egypt through his photography) by temporarily reconstructing their living room into a dense mosaic. The exhibition gives whole new meaning to the Chinese diaspora, and is as thought-provoking as it is interesting.