2024-12-22T18:12:18-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150280544/new-installation-by-sichong-xie-opening-at-the-wende-museum-s-east-german-guardhouse Nathaniel Bahadursingh 2021-09-08T16:47:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/59/5903ebcc592ada1231dedbe8b5458ccc.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wendemuseum.org/" target="_blank">Wende Museum</a>&nbsp;in Culver City, California has announced that a new installation by Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Sichong Xie will open in the museum&rsquo;s former <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/505673/east-germany" target="_blank">East German</a> guardhouse this Sunday, September 12.&nbsp;</p> <p>The guardhouse, which once monitored and controlled access to the state-run East German news agency, Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst, now hosts rotating installations by contemporary artists.&nbsp;</p> <p>As stated by the museum, Xie&rsquo;s installation, <em>Memory Structure, Scaffold Series</em>, &ldquo;features objects and arrangements emblematic of memory and temporality: bamboo scaffolding, embroidery on industrial mesh, and a set of laser-engraved drawings that will fade from continual exposure to light, through which the artist reimagines architectural drawings created by her grandfather in the late 1950s and early 1960s.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p> <p>According to the project description, none of her grandfather&rsquo;s building plans were realized after being exiled to a labor camp by Chinese authorities following the...</p>