Daniel Gauss: New Yorker in Shenzhen

Here is an article I wrote on some sculpture I saw at OCAT at OCT Loft. OCT Loft has some art, not much, and a lot of coffee houses and three or four music venues (including B-10) https://www.meer.com/en/71783-sculptures-of-mercy-and-change                                                          {click on images to enlarge them} We might be tempted to think that the woman in Xiang Jing’s sculpture  The End  turns her face to the wall and hides it with her hands as a response to the mirror next to her. We might assume the mirror forces her to compare herself with, and she is turning away from, the social expectations of personal beauty which she cannot meet. Yet, it could be that the presence of the mirror is coincidental to her turning to the wall.  It, thus, replicates the image of a grieving woman, reminding us that everything...