Preface This exhibition was born out of intuition—conceived on November 19, and realized online in early December. Just a few weeks ago, while preparing an interview, I removed a photo of an artist and her beloved dog, leaving only the “standard” documentation of artworks and exhibitions. Yet afterwards, I found myself questioning: Why must professionalism often be built upon the exclusion of the personal, the tender, and the real? This exhibition grew precisely out of that d

Kira Wu, Exhibition Director at the Asian Art Research House, was born in Beijing and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She transforms cutting-edge academic thinking into curatorial practice, weaving local sensitivities into an international perspective while constructing immersive visual narratives that bring new vitality to the art ecosystem. Confident, inclusive, and unwaveringly dedicated, Wu has become a “leading heroine curator” within Chicago’s