Public Tour | Graduation Weekend Tour: Looking Back Toward the Future

In this Museum educator–led tour of this season’s featured exhibition, presents more than forty large-scale photographs created by fourteen contemporary artists in China between 1993 and 2006. The exhibition is divided into three interrelated thematic sections—The Presence of the Past, East and West, and Performance and the Body—which together explore how artists used performance and diverse photographic and aesthetic methods to capture, freeze, and criticize the new sociopolitical, economic, and cultural environment of China post 1989.

On view for the first time at the Kemper Art Museum, these immersive, often oversize works constitute a significant recent addition to the institution’s holdings of contemporary Chinese art.

Free and open to the public.

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