Growing up in a small mountain town overlooking the Yangtze river in Sichuan, Tao Hui was surrounded by verbal transmissions of folklore and tales of bizarre happenings that befell his neighbors and friends. A collector of such stories and a natural raconteur, the artist transforms these anecdotes into video installations that acting as portals through which the audience can travel to a space not unlike the misty village of his childhood: a special purgatory where ghostly realms and the human world become intertwined, a reality stranger than fiction.

UCCA has invited Bao Dong (Curator), and Yang Zi (Art Critic and Chinese Editor at UCCA) to host a conversation with Tao Hui about how his earlier experiences and family background influenced his artwork beginning with the Chinese TV series Dream of the Red Chamber (1987).

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