Pei, a recent Hangzhou graduate, burst onto the scene in Beijing with a graffiti and punk rock performance piece, but her first solo exhibition Taikang Space, Beijing in 2010 is a poignant glimpse of old China in the rear-view mirror. Pei frequently appears in her own work as if she is searching for her own identity through the persona she adopts. “Our generation is independent, thinking but isolated and lonely. We never tell our parents what w ...