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New York, NY | Curator’s Tour of “Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity” at the Asia Society with Barbara Pollack
November 11, 2022 | 11:00 am
Please join us for a tour of Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity with the exhibition’s curator Barbara Pollack. The exhibition presents 19 artworks by seven artists, born in mainland China in the 1980s. Belonging to what is referred to as the ba ling hou generation, they grew up in a post-Mao China shaped by the one-child policy and the influx of foreign investment. Comprising painting, sculpture, performance, installation, video, digital art, and photography, the exhibition reflects the dramatic economic, political, and cultural shifts the artists have experienced in China during their lifetimes.
The exhibition’s title, Mirror Image, refers to the double reflection at the heart of the exhibition. Rather than emphasizing their “Chinese-ness,” these artists’ respective practices are born of a contemporary China where Starbucks can be found in the Forbidden City and the internet permits them access—despite the obstacles of censorship—to a host of influences beyond geographical boundaries.
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About Barbara Pollack
Independent curator and critic Barbara Pollack writes regularly about contemporary art for such publications as the New York Times, Artnews, Art and Auction, and Art in America, and is a leading authority on Chinese contemporary art. She is cofounder and co-director of Art at a Time Like This, a platform for artists’ free expression at times of crises. Most recently, she curated the exhibition Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity at the Asia Society Museum in New York. Her latest book, “Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise” is available from Bloomsbury Publishing. She is the recipient of two grants from the Asian Cultural Council, and received a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer Grant in 2008. Pollack teaches at SVA.
Image: Nabuqi. How to Be “Good Life,” 2019. Mixed media; dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Image courtesy of the artist and Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
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