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Guanyu Xu Resident Aliens

In 2018, when he was twenty-six years old, Guanyu Xu returned to China for two weeks to stage his series (2018–19) in secret, while his parents were at work. He transformed their traditional Beijing apartment using hundreds of images from his new, thrilling life as an artist and out gay man in Chicago, along with fashion magazine pages and stills from movies he loves. Xu photographed his installations, then took

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