Kang Kang
KANG KANG is a writer and translator who has contributed to the Brooklyn Rail, LEAP, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, ArtReview Asia, and other forms of publication. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature & Society from Columbia University and works as a Senior Production Assistant at the Rail.
To regenerate an inquiry into the pairing of authority and patriarchy, curators Boliang Shen and Zhanglun Dai reconsider the historical centrality of the father-son narrative, a structure that persists, with varying degrees of opacity, in various gestures of forgetting, revolt, repetition, and destruction.
Born in 1977 to a family of Sichuan Opera performers, Qiu Jiongjiong quit his hometown and formal education at a young age to “bum in Beijing” and made his name as a self-taught painter of eccentric, visceral portraits.
