“A Woman Named Summer: Rethinking Xu Hongfei’s Early Sculpture at the Guangzhou Museum of Art” by Daniel Gauss

“A Woman Named Summer: Rethinking Xu Hongfei’s Early Sculpture at the Guangzhou Museum of Art” by Daniel Gauss

Xu Hongfei’s Summer, photos by Daniel Gauss Among the many works displayed in the Guangzhou Museum of Art, one marble sculpture drew more attention than any other. Visitors who otherwise wandered through the collection paused here, not to reflect but to pose, raising their phones to capture a moment of amusement. Yet as I watched nearly every person who encountered the piece photograph themselves beside it, I began to sense that the sculpture wa…