O-1 Visas
The view out a window in Brooklyn is obviously not the same as anywhere else. But really it depends on who does the looking and what they have stored up in their visual memory. Do they recognize similarities to some other place at the level of architecture, density, pedestrian movement? The way the sun casts its shadows? The lines drawn by utility wires, window grilles, AC units? In Growth Postures, a group show at Tutu Gallery in Brooklyn, Yuyu He conjures this situation by printing a photograph of a Shanghai vista on transparent paper and hanging it directly atop one of the apartment’s windows. In the daytime the effect of “Misalignment” is palimpsestic: the shapes of Shanghai, highlighted by being recolored in acid yellow and hot pink, mix inextricably with those of New York. It’s dizzyingly hard to tell what belongs to where. The opposite happens at night, when it’s dark outside and bright indoors. Then the image is just Shanghai, floating unreal and disconnected in a black glass frame.
—Lori Waxman 2026-02-12 9:35 AM