CHRIS FREMANTLE

Two rooms in SFMOMA. Brilliant. Greeted by a revolutionary soldier, a cut out painting of the artist herself. Made, as with many of her works, from an old photograph in this case taken during the Cultural Revolution. But the revolution is what she does with the gun as it protrudes from behind her back. It becomes a sliver of a Money painting of the sun over the Thames.

There are large paintings, some three dimensional, but the multiple small paintings are in some ways the more radical part. The caption says every day she would travel to the edges of the City and paint. It makes a wall of practice. It was a form of resistance against the requirement for socialist realism. See ‘My Secret Freedom’ at Hung Liu.