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    WANG XU

    May 01, 2019 2 minutes
    HYUNJEE NICOLE KIM

    t the heart of Wang Xu’s solo exhibition at the Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM), a monumental female figure standing more than seven feet tall carries an urn on her left shoulder. She extends her right arm forward, her fingers gently reaching out. Yards of fabric fall in pleats and folds from her wide, armored chest down to her sandaled feet. This contemporary statue in classical guise, (2018), bathes in the glow of the two-channel video (2018) projected behind her, which depicts the creation of the statue interspersed with clips of an intense municipal hearing centered on a public sculpture.

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