^{Yi Cao
Curator, Writer}





Exhibition
Still After: Threads of Remembrance, 2026
Zhuo Xiong: Nomadic Threads, Oxidized Dreams, 2025
If Shadows Could Shine, 2024
Crossings, 2022
The Rounds, 2021
Liu Wei: Invisible Cities, 2020

Writing
"Relooking for Relevance"
"What a Homeland Is: Six AAPI Artists from the Collection"
"Museum Check-ins During the Pandemic"
"Beijing to Cleveland: Liu Wei Reveals Invisible Cities to Us"
"Year of the Monkey: The History Behind Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads"






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Information
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CrossingsExhibition                                           

Crossings

Artists:
Anwulika Anigbo
Farah Salem

Exhibition Dates: April 15 - May 26, 2022

Location: 2130 W. Fulton Street
Chicago, IL 60612


Historically, human migrations across the Atlantic Ocean, Sahara Desert, and Red Sea, spurred by colonization and capitalism, have had catastrophic consequences. In their respective works, Anigbo and Salem invoke personal experiences and reference the sacred and mythical West African and Afro-Arab worlds, to illuminate cultural hybridity and transformation.

Informed by Chinua Achebe’s African Trilogy and Wole Soyinka’s poetry, Anigbo asks: what is the purpose of collecting memory outside of proving our legitimacy in a battle to fabricate a truth viewed as absolute?

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