A NOTE ON THE ART:

Xinjiang artist Yi Xiaocuo interprets what a person living in Xinjiang sees in the mirror every day: the silence, stigma and violence they have to face alone. English translation of the Chinese from top to bottom: Western region, good at drinking, separatism, uncivilized, backward, cult, frontier, good at singing and dancing, kebab, Xinjiang dance, ethnic minority, east Turkistan, poverty, superstitious, independence, hand-pulled noodle, backward, traitor, thief district, terrorism, extremism, exotic, little sister, undeveloped, pretty, sexy, foreign forces.