Su Hui's Picture of the Turning Sphere: Kate YU, Art Researcher from video for woman without cloth Watch Video
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Description: Su Hui’s Picture of the Turning Sphere, a multi-channel video installation with film and textile components, focuses on the Chinese poet Su Hui and her 4th century poem, Xuanji tu (Picture of the Turning Sphere), one of the earliest and most complex recorded poems written by a woman. Written in a reversible form (sometimes translated as palindromic), the poems within the 29 x 29 character grid of this poem can be read circularly, horizontally, vertically, diagonally, and in patterns— stagger
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