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Introduction: Spacing Memories by Joshua Gong The Outcast’s Competition, 2019–23 Personal memory provides an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Xu Xiaowei’s visual art. In an ever-shifting landscape of contemporary visual culture, people continually reenact absurd yet realistic tragicomedies. Through the language of lens and intuitive impulses, Xiaowei creates a distinctive artistic texture. His artworks strive to ...

Drawn in the landscapes of memory by Roger Ballen The Feast of the Gods, 2020 As I traverse the landscapes of memory, I am drawn back to my first encounter of China in 1987. I vividly recall the bicycles that filled the streets, the blue uniforms worn by the populace and the overwhelming stillness of ...