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LIN TIANMIAO

In the 1970s and ’80s, Chinese avant-garde artists showed their work in apartment spaces to evade intervention by government authorities. As part of this Apartment Art generation, Lin Tianmiao is known for her intensely introspective installations that examine body and identity through thread-winding: an intuitive and labor-intensive practice that involves “binding” objects in multiple layers of thread. The visceral installations

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