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  • Miao Ying, Flowers all fallen, birds far gone (detail), 2015, GIF animation, 39 frames.

    Miao Ying, Flowers all fallen, birds far gone (detail), 2015, GIF animation, 39 frames.

    Miao Ying

    Chronus Art Center

    For Miao Ying’s “Holding a Kitchen Knife to Cut the Internet Cable,” a monthlong online exhibition organized by the Chronus Art Center and the Chinese pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale, the artist revisited a collection of ten GIFs and browser works she produced in 2014 and 2015 that engage the aesthetics of censorship. Arranged here in a set sequence, the flashy, congested pieces could be scrolled through by a visitor such that an ambiguous narrative unfolded. The composition of each page typically consisted of a background image, a browser window, and found slangy musings about love,

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