The Home is Red
March 6–10th
Closing reception is on March 10 from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
The Home is Red takes its name from the Chinese revolutionary song “The East is Red,” which was adopted as the non-official national anthem of China in the 1960s. I recall my grandmother singing this song to my sister and I as children. Now as an adult, with my grandmother currently in the late stages of Alzheimer's, I find myself clinging onto this song with all its complexities. My troubled relationship to this song becomes the starting point of where all the works originate. A space of ignorant bliss and blind assumptions of familial and political histories. To think about the intersections of such histories, this body of work utilizes photographs of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, along with personal family photographs. However, the works do not aim to depict the events of the Massacre and its relationship to my family history with clarity. The paintings are drawn over, smudged, and obscured—at times shifting between where the photograph ends and the painting begins. The event of the Tiananmen Square Massacre becomes a platform for me to explore my assumptions and confusions about generational trauma, unknown familial narratives, and my proximity to a culture, history, and politics of a country I was never raised in. —Larry Li
For more information on Li, please visit Larryli.myportfolio.com. Li also may be contacted at Larry.li.email@gmail.com.
The Bolsky Gallery is on the Goldsmith campus of Otis College of Art and Design at 9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045.
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The Bolsky Gallery is open Monday through Sunday, 8:00 a.m.–7:30 p.m. All visitors to the Bolsky Gallery must pre-register via this link no less than 24 hours prior to the selected event date and time. Registered visitors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 and be masked for the duration of their visit. Those with medical or religious exemptions need to present a negative COVID-19 test taken within 24 hours.
RSVP for the Closing Reception
Closing reception is on March 10th from 7:00–9:00pm. All visitors to the reception must pre-register via this link no less than 24 hours prior to the selected event date and time. Registered visitors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 and be masked for the duration of their visit. Those with medical or religious exemptions need to present a negative COVID-19 test taken within 24 hours.
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March 10, 2022
