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SUMMARY:Being and Becoming in Contemporary Chinese Art
DESCRIPTION:This talk by Peggy Wang\, associate professor of art history and Asian studies at Bowdoin College\, addresses the conflicting pressures that artists in China confronted during the 1990s and early 2000s\, including rapid urbanization and cultural globalization. Even as they navigated political constraints and deficits in resources\, contemporary artists enacted productive strategies for making and exhibiting their art. This lecture foregrounds artists’ assertions of being and becoming\, both as critical tactics for configuring identity and generative topics unto themselves. Wang will particularly examine how artists studied the vibrant dynamics of change through temporal\, historical\, and material dimensions in their art. \nThis lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China\, on view at the Kemper Art Museum from February 27 to July 27\, 2026.
LOCATION:Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum\, 1 Brookings Drive\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63112\, 1 Brookings Drive\, St. Louis\, MO\, 63130
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