August 2025

On view by appointment

Wednesday - Saturday, August 20-29

email apartment1.org@gmail.com to schedule an appointment

PROJECTS ON VIEW

Egrets, Please stay, Let’s have a heart-to-heart talk (excerpts)

Xijiang East, New Xianglin’s Wife (2) ——Second aunt and Wu Huanxuan

XU TAN joined the Guangzhou-based artist collective, “Big Tail Elephant Working Group,” in 1993. In 2002, he was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Artists' Fund (Rockefeller Foundation) (ACC) in New York, while working as artist-in-residence at Location One. He was selected for the Artists' Fund of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, Berlin) in 2004. Since 2005, works related to the ongoing project Keywords have been presented in art institutions and exhibitions around the world. The Social Botany project, which started in 2012, is the latest phase of Keywords. Launched in 2020, his work, Shunde Study, documents interviews with people who suffer from depressive symptoms. The Egrets, Please Stay, Let's Have a Heart-to-Heart Talk project started in 2021 and has been gradually released since early 2024.

“[Xu Tan’s] installation and video works explore issues crucial to the post-Cold War, post-colonial, and increasingly globalized world like urbanization, the geopolitical relationships between the developed and developing worlds in terms of political, economic, and cultural production and their impacts on personal lives and their expressions. Xu’s works are often site-specific, dealing intimately with everyday experiences to critically demonstrate the tension between globally circulating images, modes of communication, and the impact they have locally. Powerfully and intelligently, Xu’s work calls for contemporary art to engage with social reality in our time.” - KADIST 

EXCERPTS

ARTIST TALK EXCERPT