Censored Chinese artist's photos coming to NYC
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A special exhibition of photographs by Chinese artist Liu Xia (lee-OH'-shah) are going on display at Columbia University.
She is the wife of imprisoned 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo (lee-OH' shee-ow-BOH').
The photos were spirited out of China just before Liu was placed under house arrest after her husband, imprisoned in 2009 for urging democratic reform, won the Nobel. Her works are censored in her native country.
The 25 photos depict life-like dolls in various settings. One shows Liu's husband holding a doll with an anguished expression. In another, a tied-up doll sits in front of an open book.
Curator Guy Sorman says the dolls are metaphors for the pain and suffering of the Chinese people.
The exhibition opens Thursday and runs through March 1.
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