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Almost as strange as Woolfalk's Empathics are the works of María Magdalena Campos-Pons. In her Polaroids, the artist stages herself with a face powdered in white and a birdcage atop her head, adorned with feathers and strings of pearls. The images were made on the occasion of the Cuban artist's performance at the 2013 Venice Biennial, where she presented herself as a kind of multicultural goddess on the Piazza San Marco. On the other hand, Carrie Mae Weems's photographic works are more conceptual than performance-based. Standing with her back to the camera, the African American artist poses before a minimalist Sol Lewitt sculpture, for instance, or the British Museum. Weems questions the role criteria such as sex and race play when art is evaluated by institutions. Ko Siu Lan, who was invited by Cao Fei, also criticizes prevailing conditions. Her Rubik's Cube contains the word One in combination with Nation, Family, Child, Husband, System, Country, World, Party, Voice-a subtle commentary on the political and social pressure in her native China.
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