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UCCA presents Slide / Show: Light Images in Chinese Contemporary Art. By juxtaposing artworks with select archival materials, the exhibition proposes a new genealogy of the slide and its legacy in Chinese contemporary art.

The exhibition "Cultural Codes - Wang Youshen's Journey" is the first time to comprehensively sort out and present the artistic experiments and practices of contemporary artist Wang Youshen spanning more than 30 years. Wang Youshen was born in 1964. Since 1989, he has been active at the forefront of conceptual contemporary art creation. His creations involve a variety of media.

This spring, the Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum features exhibitions of work by Wang Youshen, John Walker and Yuan Yunsheng, and Zhao Wenliang and Yang Yushu.

Twenty-one years after the fact, my efforts to reconstruct my first trip to China produce a confusion of impressions in which multiple images are fused together and refuse to be unraveled or separated. Having lived in China for nineteen of those twenty-one years—I moved up from Hong Kong less than a year after these “first” visits—witness to much change and, in particular, the