Scholarship
Xueli Wang
Writer & PhD Candidate
United States
United States
Scholarship
Review of Jean Ma's book At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators (2022)
On Maggie Cheung's missing body in Irma Vep (2022)
On Patty Chang, the watery mirror of Asian American art, and diasporic wandering as a precious act of unmapping.
Criticism
Wing Shya's new book "Solace" peers behind the scenes of Wong Kar-Wai films and into the artist's own life and travels.
Once a staple of Chinese cinema, martial arts' imaginary of an underworld of vagrants and vigilantes has marked recent art on the chance encounters of immigrant life.
Asian American photographers have always found inventive ways to engage with interior spaces, often against the demands of public visibility.
On Jill Li’s film about the six-year protest movement in Wukan village and the history of independent documentary in China.
For filmmaker Jia Zhangke, China's embrace of mass consumerism is offset, however violently, by ancient social bonds.
These works are part of an ongoing effort among Chinese artists to restore photography's diminishing power over memory.
On Hong Sang-soo's The Day After and the filmmaker's place in slow cinema.
Qiu Anxiong works in various mediums but is perhaps best known for his animations that adopt the aesthetic of Chinese ink painting. His desire to turn traditional painting into moving images is at the same time a desire to defamiliarize video and critique contemporary realities through ancient sensibilities.
Patty Chang's show at the Queens Museum, her most expansive to date, encompassed video, photography, glass sculpture, ephemera, and an artist's book.
THE FIRST TIME that I watched a film by Abbas Kiarostami, I fell asleep.
Toward the end of Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye Dragon Inn, an aged film star half whispers to another: "No one goes to the movies anymore. And no one remembers us anymore."
Exhibitions & Programs
A night of never-before-screened films and conversation at the intersection of basketball, art, and Chinatown.
A conversation with actress Christy Cheung on the opening night of Spacked Out 無人駕駛, out from Kani Releasing, with translation by Tom Chan.
An annotated chronology of the life and work of photographer An-My Lê, published in the MoMA exhibition catalogue "An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers."
In a Queens neighborhood with a diverse community of East Asian immigrants, an unlikely exhibition in an unexpected place offers a sense of belonging.
A conversation with photographers Jarod Lew, Miraj Patel, Arthur Ou, and Julie Quon in relation to my article “The Possibility of Home” in Aperture's June 2023 issue.
Grants & Fellowships
Xueli Wang's article "Poetics of Interiority in Asian American Photography" will examine Asian American photographers whose work eschew historical flash points to linger instead over the long stretches of ordinary life in between-offering visions of the familiar and familial, daily routines and domestic interiors, quotidian intimacies and private yearnings.
Xueli Wang (2021–22 Yale/Fellow in Photography)