Beijing Xingwei

Over the last twenty-five years, Chinese time-based art has produced some of the most unusual work in the contemporary art world. It includes performances involving cannibalism, self-harm and animal sacrifice, light-calligraphy, meat tangled up with sex toys, and an ice wall with commodities frozen inside. This body of work has energized global art movements and the conversations around them.

In Beijing Xingwei, Meiling Cheng takes up artworks of this kind that were made in response to China's fast-moving changes after the Deng era. The transformations she places at their center are social, economic, cultural, intellectual and environmental.