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variety of media. The group focuses on the language of urbanism, architecture and new cinema and strives to explore how such vocabularies have inflected the visual culture of modern China. Leo Xu
Projects is envisioned as a platform for artistic experiments that investigate and explore through the aesthetic lens the phenomenon of
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that investigates the youth culture of mainland China - music and lifestyle in particular. This series, set primarily on club dance-floors or at party scenes, aims to capture the moment of trance from the life of
Chinese youth, who grow up in the post-89 years and are heavily influenced by imported
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Projects is the eponymous gallery founded by Leo Xu in 2011. It is housed in a three-story building in Shanghai's former French Concession, near the intersection of West Fuxing Road and Wulumuqi Road. It represents a younger generation of artists from China and overseas who experiment with a
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and Li Shurui and Harbin-based duo Zhang
Jungang & Li Jie, provided a visual narrative of the relationship between the artists' lives and the contemporary landscape. The latter portrayed and explored the concept of masculinity while surveying the cultures, sub-cultures and ideologies that have
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gave a talk on the relationship between time and space as part of the exhibition program. Leo Xu curated a sound project that extended the exhibition into a subtle soundscape that further facilitates the philosophical rumination over the dynamics between architecture, people, and urban landscape.
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was presented, which focus on the indigenous culture of
Shenzhen and Guangzhou, a region in south China populated with migrant works. Through installation works, the artist examines and calls into attention the immediate reality of contemporary China, exploring in particular how the notion of
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produced a ten-channel video installation that incorporates a documentary of the making of Lin's Model Home, as well as footage on the architectural environment and people. Dutch artist
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presents works produced by a group of artists who work with diverse media, including the French choreographer
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