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Though they\u2019re hard to read at first glance, it\u2019s illegibility that draws viewers into Guanyu Xu<\/a>\u2019s photographs of apartment interiors at Yancey Richardson Gallery<\/a>. At first appearing to be a digital collage, the images are of actual physical spaces temporarily hung with photographs and shot by Xu.\u00a0 Here, the floor and curving wall anchor the scene, which is hung with a photo of a window (partially covering a doorway), a photo of a bookshelf affixed to a radiator along with larger and smaller images that make space strange.\u00a0 The details draw us in \u2013 travel photos, personal snapshots and more express the particular character and interests of the apartment owner, each of whom lives in the US or China with varying immigration statuses.\u00a0 Titled \u2018Resident Alien,\u2019 the focus on intimate personal details in each photographed interior challenges the exhibition title\u2019s cold terminology. (On view in Chelsea through Dec 20th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Guanyu Xu, DJ-08182018-01172022, archival pigment print, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Guanyu Xu, (detail of) DJ-08182018-01172022, archival pigment print, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though they\u2019re hard to read at first glance, it\u2019s illegibility that draws viewers into Guanyu Xu\u2019s photographs of apartment interiors at Yancey Richardson Gallery. At first appearing to be a digital collage, the images are of actual physical spaces temporarily hung with photographs and shot by Xu.\u00a0 Here, the floor and curving wall anchor the … <\/p>\n

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