Lou Mo (b. 1990, France) is a Chinese Canadian artist and curator. She lives and works in France. She graduated from Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris with a degree in Asian Studies. Her research is focused on modern and contemporary Afro-Asian connections and Third World artists’ creative practices. She is also interested in issues of diaspora, identity, and perception in relation to post-colonial history and the centre-periphery model. She was invited curator of the 14th Dakar Biennial in Senegal where she presented ‘Havana, Forging the Souths’ exhibition at the Musée Théodore Monod – IFAN. Recently, she curated ‘Hot Flux: Modern and Contemporary Photography in Taiwan and Africa’ at Tainan Art Museum. As a member of the School of Mutants collective, her works have been exhibited in venues such as the 12th Taipei Biennial, Centre Pompidou Metz, the 12th Berlin Biennial, the 4th autostrada biennale and Glasgow International. Her other research-based works have recently been exhibited at the Hong-Gah Museum in Taipei and the Kochi-Muziris Biennial in India. She has participated in residencies at the A4 Art Foundation in South Africa, the Het Nieuwe Instituut in the Netherlands, La Cité des arts de La Réunion, La Becque in Switzerland and more. Her articles, translations, and exhibition reviews have appeared in ‘Something we Africans got’, the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Modern Art (TFAM), with Nanjing’s Yilin Press, e-flux and Ocula.
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