Abstract
What does it mean to make art in a space that lies on the fault lines of geopolitical boundaries and gender discourses? This article explores the work of Chinese women artists who are alive to the complexities and ambiguities of their position and art practices in between. It asks after the feminist nature of that gap space as the condition for dispersal of identity and the emergence of embodied and affective meaning. How does the work of art work to bring the feminist gap into the beholder's presence? How do we as beholders enter into the feminist gap through our encounters with it? And why might ways of seeing that are shaped by these women's experiences as visual artists and their cultural understandings of feminism end up mattering to us all?
