UCCA Edge Exhibition | "Liu Xiaodong: Your Friends" Virtual Guided Tour

From August 8, 2021 to October 10, 2021, UCCA Edge
presents its first solo exhibition, “Liu Xiaodong: Your Friends.” A pioneering painter
of a new realism in China, Liu Xiaodong (b. 1963, Jincheng, Liaoning province, lives
and works in Beijing) emerged in the 1990s, known for his acute and lucid
depictions of the minute changes he observed in different slices of China’s rapidly
urbanizing and developing society. Since the early 2000s, he has been known to
work on-site in locations of particular poignance, from the construction site of the
Three Gorges Dam to the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration.
This exhibition charts Liu’s artistic development in the decade since his 2010
exhibition “Hometown Boy” at UCCA Beijing, bringing together more than 120 new
and existing works, including his latest series “Your Friends,” as well as sketches,
diaries, and a new documentary film by long-time collaborator, the director Yang
Bo. “Liu Xiaodong: Your Friends” is curated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari and
UCCA Curator Yan Fang.