Guanyu Xu: I dreamt of this and there will be more
Jan. 10 - Feb. 28, 2026

Guanyu Xu’s debut solo exhibition at re.riddle, I dreamt of this and there will be more, contemplates how bodies are rendered legible within visual and spatial regimes. Xu’s photographs and collages reveals how subjectivity is lived and perceived through space, landscapes, and portals such as windows and doorways, moving between public and private sites shaped by law, intimacy, domesticity, and fantasy.


By layering images across geographies and temporalities, from teenage bedrooms to parental homes and compressed migrant dwellings, Xu fractures domestic space and undoes the fiction of a singular identity or history contained within its walls. The home opens instead onto overlapping forces of nationalism, heteronormativity, queer desire, and migrant precarity. As such, the subject inhabits multiple spaces at once, the remembered home, the surveilled home, the imagined home, the provisional home.

Xu’s photographs and collages trace intersecting power structures, showing how the immigrant body learns to anticipate its borders and how the queer subject calibrates intimacy in relation to dominant aesthetic codes. His work poses a broader inquiry: in a so-called globalized world, how might we redefine citizenship and the legality of a person? And, in turn, how might we reshape the very architecture of looking?