ONLINE: Guanyu Xu & Paul Baker Prindle
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press release: Jan. 20: Virtual Artist Talk, Conversation, and Live Q&A with Guanyu Xu and Paul Baker Prindle of the "Between" exhibition at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Between: July 10, 2021-February 13, 2022
Between is an exhibition featuring photographs from the Museum’s permanent collection and loans from artists Hannah Price, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Guanyu Xu. The exhibition highlights liminal space, a concept that has often been discussed in reference to life during the pandemic in the past year. Liminal space can be defined in various ways—in between, a threshold, a moment of transition, or a rite of passage.
Photography is often considered a documentary device that can capture a particular moment, yet the trick of the medium is that it is also liminal—the camera functions at the brief pause between when reality is transpiring and when it becomes trapped in time. Between includes 18 photographs spanning from the late 1920s to 2019 with each artist exploring the liminal in various and nuanced ways. We invite you to visit MMoCA and experience it for yourself.
Influenced by the production of ideology in American visual culture and his conservative familial upbringing in Beijing, China, Guanyu Xu’s practice extends from examining the production of power in photography to the question of personal freedom and its relationship to political regimes. His works have been exhibited and screened internationally including the ICP Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, and others. Guanyu Xu is based in Chicago and a lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Photographs from Paul Baker Prindle's series Mementi Mori (2011) have been exhibited across the United States. His work has been published by Out, The Advocate, and German arts and culture magazine Männer. A graduate of Edgewood College and University of Wisconsin-Madison, he lives and works in Long Beach, California.
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