RR-08212010-05012021
Guanyu Xu, Chinese, born 1993
2021
Archival pigment print
4/5 2 AP
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Elizabeth and David C. Lowenstein '67 Fund
© Guanyu Xu 徐冠宇
2025.1.1
Portfolio / Series Title
Resident Aliens
Geography
Place Imaged: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Place Made: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Label
Guanyu Xu’s Resident Aliens series explores the domestic spaces of non-citizen immigrants in the United States. For this image, Xu has constructed a temporary collagelike installation of photographs of the participant’s home, belongings, and personal photos. They then take a photograph of this rich yet disorienting space. The display juxtaposes images of the past and present, mundane and monumental. The visual interruption of the domestic space highlights the fragmentation and impermanence that visa holders experience. Being legally suspended between countries and cultures, visa holders find the home to be a space of neither security nor certainty.
From the 2025 exhibition Visual Kinship, curated by Alisa Swindell, Associate Curator of Photography, Dr. Kimberly Juanita Brown, Dr. Thy Phu and Dr. Iyko Day
Course History
College Course 26.01, What’s in Your Toolbox?, Casey Aldrich and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2025
Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies 65.07, Queer Popular Culture, Eng-Beng Lim, Fall 2025
Studio Art 76.02, Senior Seminar I, Tricia Treacy, Winter 2026
Studio Art 76.01, Senior Seminar I, Jen Caine, Winter 2026
Spanish 3.01, Spanish III, Paloma Ascensio, Fall 2025
Spanish 3.02, Spanish III, Paloma Ascensio, Fall 2025
Spanish 15.01, Latinx Writing & Composition, Kianny Antigua, Fall 2025
Exhibition History
Visual Kinship, Lathrop, Jaffe and Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30 - November 29, 2025.
Provenance
The artist, 2021; to the Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, date unknown; sold to present collection, 2025.
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