Lantian Xie

Home Country:: Bahrain
Lives and Works:: Dubai

Lantian Xie (b. 1988, Manama) makes images about belonging and cosmopolitanism. He is particularly interested in general trading, hotel lobbies, broasted chicken, and those peacocks that roam around DIFC. Xie holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is editor-at-large at Dubai-based publishing practice THE STATE.

Lantian Xie was a participant of Tashkeel's Critical Practice Programme 2017.

Lantian Xie

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2014

Hardees UAE home-delivery hotline holding music pressed to vinyl

Excerpt from Wong Kar Wai's Days of Being Wild.
Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai.

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Lantian Xie

Home-delivery motorcycle parked outside

2014

. Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai.

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Lantian Xie

HHSM

2012

Oil on canvas, state mandate

Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai.

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Lantian Xie

Turn the Cold Weather into Sun and Fun

2015

Lecure performance

Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai.

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Lantian Xie

Chicago Beach Hotel

2014

Colour pencil on paper

Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai.

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Lantian Xie

Meridian

2014

1950s lithographs by John Fabreau from 1920s drawings by Daniel G. Elliot.

Courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise, Dubai.

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Cpp Image — Critical Practice Programme 2016 - 2017

Following the success of the first edition of the Critical Practice Programme, this year Tashkeel has selected through open call Hadeyeh Badri, Lantian Xie, and Raja'a Khalid as participants of the 20...

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