Although she belongs to the avant-garde generation that has done so well, internationally as well as within China, Xiao Lu nonetheless presents an alternative to the recognized artist. Contradictions abound in regard to her career: for one, she is considered a major artist on the basis of a very small body of work.
01 / Oct / 2006
This is because we see in these two telephone booths a red telephone placed on a table, but the telephone’s mouthpiece is not atop the telephone, but rather dangles there, unanswered, suggesting that the “dialogue” has been cut off.
20 / Apr / 2004
First letter from Xiao Lu to Gao Minglu about the shooting of her work Dialogue at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, in 1989.
Greetings! Thank you for your account of the shooting and your three letters. I apologise for not answering promptly. I have indeed been very busy recently, and also been unwell for a while.
03 / Mar / 2004
This time I spent all my time in a hotel. I couldn’t see any green shadows outside the window, but just shut myself inside my room, except for an occasional long walk outside, and I seemed isolated from this world.
01 / Mar / 2004
2022 “20th-Century Galleries Collection 1960s-2000” Art Gallery of NSW, Australia 2021 “Love in the Dream” 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong. “The Realm of Existence: An exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art”, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China. 2019 “Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue” (Solo Show), 4A Centre Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia. 2018 “Her Kind” …
On Aug. 21, the “Country Life Plan” exhibition was scheduled to open at the National Gallery in Beijing. Though the paintings were indifferent, and had to the ordinary eye no hint of political significance
2022 “Strpping Out ! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art” Kunstforeningen GI Strand Copenhagen, Denmark “Stepping Out ! Female Identities in Chinese Contemporary Art” Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway. 2020 “Democracies” TATE Liverpool, UK 2019 “Collection Galleries: 1970s – Present” MoMA, NY, USA “Photography 180 years in China” MOCA Yinchuan, China “Thousand-Armed Guanyin” Red Brick Art …
As a matter of my overall conception of art, I believe that art is a process of testing (or perhaps, supplementing this word with words of similar meaning: a practice, practical experiment, attempt, possibility of discovery and so on).
27 / Feb / 1989
Concise situation account of the “Shooting Incident” of 5 February, 1989 at the China/Avant-Garde in Beijing. Naturally, the facts in my account are selective and have a motive, namely to draw people’s increased attention to the facts of these events. Our original object in this action was to let the situation speak for itself.
