Wang Qingsong (Chinese, b. 1966), Knick Knack Peddler, 2002. Color photograph, 9/25, 23 9/16 × 78 ¾ in. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. Gift of Larry Warsh, 2024.
Gallery Talk and Tour–Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China
Sabine Eckmann, William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator, joins Jianqing Chen, and Jiayi Chen, assistant professors in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in Arts & Sciences, for a conversation on select artworks in the exhibition Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China. Throughout the conversation, Eckmann, Chen, and Chen will share insights from their unique disciplines and research to contextualize how artists employed avant-garde techniques and concepts to speak to their own experiences and the broader sociopolitical, economic, and cultural shifts in China between 1993 and 2006.