Gallery Talk and Tour: Looking Back Toward the Future

Kemper Art Museum at WashU

A discussion of the new exhibition Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China at the Kemper Art Museum.

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Sabine Eckmann, William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator, joins Jianqing Chen, and Jiayi Chen, assistant professors in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in Arts &amp; Sciences, for a conversation on select artworks in the exhibition <a href="https://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/on-view/on-view/looking-back-toward-the-future-contemporary-photography-from-china-2026" title="https://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/on-view/on-view/looking-back-toward-the-future-contemporary-photography-from-china-2026" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China</a>. Throughout the conversation, Eckmann, Chen, and Chen will share insights from their unique disciplines and research to contextualize how artists employed avant-garde techniques and concepts to speak to their own experiences and the broader sociopolitical, economic, and cultural shifts in China between 1993 and 2006.

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