Guanyu Xu

$100.00

LL-09292014-01042020, 2020

AIR 2022

Inkjet print on paper
8 × 10 Inches

Resident Aliens presents physical photographic installations within immigrants' interior spaces to examine their personal histories and complex experiences. Through photographing the layered images of immigrants' interior spaces, belongings, personal photo archives, and pictures of places they captured in this world, the project blurs the boundaries between the familiar and foreignness, private and public, belonging and alienation. Resident Aliens is particularly meaningful when we face the rise of neo-nationalism and xenophobia across the globe.

This print is an edition of 50, available only from September 17th - December 7th, 2026. After this date, this image will not be made available in this format again.

LL-09292014-01042020, 2020

AIR 2022

Inkjet print on paper
8 × 10 Inches

Resident Aliens presents physical photographic installations within immigrants' interior spaces to examine their personal histories and complex experiences. Through photographing the layered images of immigrants' interior spaces, belongings, personal photo archives, and pictures of places they captured in this world, the project blurs the boundaries between the familiar and foreignness, private and public, belonging and alienation. Resident Aliens is particularly meaningful when we face the rise of neo-nationalism and xenophobia across the globe.

This print is an edition of 50, available only from September 17th - December 7th, 2026. After this date, this image will not be made available in this format again.

Guanyu Xu

徐冠宇 Guanyu Xu (b.1993 Beijing) is an artist currently based in Chicago and Beijing. Influenced by the production of hegemonic ideology in American visual culture and his upbringing in Beijing, his practice extends from examining the production of power in image culture to the question of personal freedom and its relationship to political regimes. Xu negotiates this from his perspective as a Chinese gay man and an immigrant in the US. In his work, he migrates between mediums like photography, new media, and installation. These movements operate similarly to his displaced and fractured identity. In Xu's art practice, he strives to understand the politics between the U.S. and China, on both personal and transnational levels. Xu proposes a transnational position for viewers to examine and negotiate the interconnected oppressions in this contemporary moment of supposed freedom.