House of Huang: Paris-based Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping's eclectic sculptures and installations are the subject of a traveling retrospective now on view at MASS MoCA.

From: Art in America | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: Heartney, Eleanor | Copyright information

Rhetoric designed to inculcate fear and nationalism thrives on the representation of complex forces as a set of simple oppositions--Us vs. Them, Good vs. Evil, West vs. East. By contrast, "House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective," which debuted at the Walker Art Center and is now on view at MASS MoCA, offers a spirited rebuttal to such reductive thinking. The Chinese-born, Paris-based Huang rejects fixed notions of cultural identity, political hegemony and ethnic differen...

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