On February 29, 2024, Xiao Lu’s solo exhibition “The Dignity of Remembering” opening at the MARS Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. The opening ceremony started at 6 pm, and some Hong Kong people posted Stickers next to three photos of Hong Kong’s “return in progress” in 2019.
Exhibition: China the new frontier of Art, Curator：Vincenzo Sanfo, Location：Cultural & Institutional Center, Milan, Italy., Time：23 June, 2023 – 8 October
The original idea of “Dialogue” stems from personal despair. The work shows a man and a woman making a call; the phone line hangs in the middle, proving the impossibility of such a dialogue. In this contradictory state of mind lies the original idea of the installation “Dialogue”. The last gunshot was a roar out of suppressed emotions.
On 5 September 2015, at the Valand Academy of Fine Arts in Gothenburg, Sweden, performance artist Xiao Lu (b.1962) poured buckets of black ink and water over her head in an almost trance-like ritual of self-immersion and re-emergence. Her apparently simple actions, viscerally shocking to view, embodied Xiao’s complex responses to gendered lived experiences and …
