The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (Broad MSU) will welcome the work of 27 female emerging artists from China—some of whom have never before shown in the United States—in the exhibition Fire Within: a New Generation of Chinese Women Artists, due to open on 27 August (until 12 February 2017). Shifting power structures in the workplace and home, gender identity and changing perceptions of cultural dynamics within China’s traditionally patriarchal society and in the wider world are among the topics explored. The artists represented work in a variety of media: painting, photography, animation, video, performance—and even bodily fluids. In Liu Ren’s sculpture Tribute to All the Lost Ova (2015), stacked clear resin blocks are coloured with menstrual blood, from dark purple-red masses to orangey swirls. “The work represents the continual pressures and challenges that women face throughout their lives,” says the curator Wang Chunchen.
