AAP WEB: NEITHER BLACK / RED / YELLOW NOR WOMAN
When art historian Mia Yu started looking into the artist Pan Yuliang (also known as Pan Yulin) in 2017, she asked a simple question: “Who are you?” Yu wasn’t looking for facts—documents on Pan, one of the first women to join Chinese and European artist circles in the 1920s and ’30s, are abundant. Yu was after Pan’s personal view as a diasporic female artist, moving between political systems and art schools in China and France. Yu’s video installation Pan Yuliang: A Journey from Silence (2017), a table inlaid with a screen, displays an overhead shot of the researcher’s hands assembling photographs and archival material while she narrates her discoveries and lingering questions. Her essayistic search was the first in many delightful works on view in the exhibition “Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman,” at the Times Art Center Berlin.