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February 27, 2023
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Art Installation
City of Salem

PEM Presents Extraordinary Immersive Installation by Leading Contemporary Artist Gu Wenda

by John Andrews
Gu Wenda: United Nations On view April 1–November 5, 2023 SALEM, MA – The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents a monumental installation that immerses visitors in a vision of shared humanity, global connectivity and mass participation. Gu Wenda’s united nations – man and space uses a material viscerally associated with the human body to create a dramatic installation: 188 flags measuring
February 27, 2023