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Epilogue

2013

Yan Xing hung the monitor with this video over the entrance of his 2013 solo exhibition "Recent Works." The textual content is derived from both the Chinese and English titles of Richard Hamilton's (1922-2011) famous work Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? (1956). Hamilton created this collage for the catalog and poster of the 1956 exhibition "This Is Tomorrow," after which it quickly became an iconic work of Pop Art. Yan Xing provocatively challenges the boundaries of semantic transformation by borrowing the title rather than the artwork itself. This work, its extremely minimalist expression being the exact contrary to that of traditional Pop Art, examines the infiltrations and diversions of modernity.

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