Opening-Day Performance: Ways of Knowing
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Opening-Day Performance: Ways of Knowing

A woman dressed in white reads from a small book above a table with framed drawings and another book.
Chang Yuchen, Coral Dictionary: An Interpretation Performance, at Beijing Commune, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Beijing Commune.

Artist Chang Yuchen, whose work is on view in the exhibition Ways of Knowing, presents a performance-lecture related to her Coral Dictionary project. Started in 2019 during a residency on the Malaysian island of Dinawan, this ongoing project speculates on the relationships between language, landscape, natural history, and culture.

Chang Yuchen (b. 1989, Shanxi, China) lives and works in New York. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Power Station of Art, Shanghai, and Para Site, Hong Kong, among others. She has performed at venues including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Artists Space, and Tai Kwun Contemporary. Her work is in the library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Rosemary Furtak Collection, Walker Art Center. Chang holds a BA in photography from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, and an MFA in print media from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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