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In L.A., Emilia Yin Is Prioritizing Artist Evolution Over Market Moments
10 April 2025 In less than a decade, young gallerist Emilia Yin and her gallery Make Room have earned a reputation as sharp... Read more -
Shana Hoehn Explores the Uncanny Dichotomy Between Suffocation and Shelter in L.A.
A latent violence pulses through the works in “Sleepless” at Make Room Los Angeles, implying the artist’s process is a cathartic exorcism of unspoken trauma. 21 March 2025 There’s something sinister and uncanny yet quietly revelatory in the isolated body fragments sculpted and painted by Los Angeles-based artist... Read more
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The 10 Best Booths at Frieze Los Angeles 2025
21 March 2025 Since its debut in 2019, Frieze Los Angeles has become a linchpin for the city’s art scene, a fact that... Read more -
‘Los Angeles is like a phoenix’: Frieze gives boost to city’s artists and galleries
Just weeks after the fires, a strong opening at the fair indicates a positive mood among buyers 20 March 2025 With around 100 exhibitors, the pace of the fair saw less hustle and more consideration, with a focus on showing... Read more
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Suho’s Top Picks from Frieze Viewing Room
The K-pop star and actor chooses a dramatic painting by Janaina Tschäpe and a deeply meditative piece by Park Seo-Bo 22 February 2025 Kim Jun-myeon (Korean: 김준면), better known by his stage name Suho (Korean: 수호, meaning ‘guardian’), is a South Korean singer-songwriter... Read more -
Xin Liu | ‘The Theater of Metamorphoses’
In Conversation With the Artist on Her Presentation with Make Room Gallery At Frieze LA 20 February 2025 This week at Frieze LA , Make Room Gallery will present artist Xin Liu ’s solo series The Theater of... Read more
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Five Emerging Artists to Watch at Frieze Los Angeles 2025
Focus returns to spotlight the next generation of art spaces and artists... 27 November 2024 The Focus section at Frieze Los Angeles 2025 showcases some of the most innovative and thought-provoking art being made today.... Read more -
Jacopo Pagin's 'Office Illusions' Take Over Make Room Los Angeles
5 November 2024 Make Room Los Angeles is presenting Office Illusions by Jacopo Pagin , on view now through December 17, 2024, marking... Read more
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Andrew Sendor and linn meyers
Review of Andrew Sendor & linn meyers shows in Visual Art Source 18 October 2024 Sendor specializes in creating paintings in series that capture emotional and psychologically stirring moments in self-scripted plays. These are presented... Read more -
The five artists I discovered at Frieze in London whose names I should note down right away
15 October 2024 Los Angeles-based Make Room Gallery presents a series of new oil paintings by Chinese artist Yuri Yuan . Combining imagination... Read more
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The Narrative Journey Behind Andrew Sendor’s Art
Andrew Sendor is a visual artist who lives and works in New York. Sendor is most recognized for his extraordinary facility in representational painting that serves to illuminate his ongoing engagement with the power of the imagination. The artist introduc 9 October 2024 Andrew Sendor is a visual artist who lives and works in New York. Sendor is most recognized for his extraordinary... Read more -
Artists Rally Around Climate Change and Social Justice in New Hammer Exhibition
8 October 2024 Art has always played several functions in society: a form of personal expression, a chronicling of the present moment and... Read more
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Art Spiel Picks: Los Angeles Summer Group Exhibitions
August in LA may be the hottest month of the year, but definitely not so hot for the art scene. 14 August 2024 In an intimate exhibition, I Go to Seek a Great Perhaps, unites mostly small works by young contemporary and iconic... Read more -
Meet The Chinese Artist Who Bridges Art, Technology And Human Dreams
Xin Liu Interview With Forbes 25 July 2024 ften incorporating elements of space exploration, biotechnology and data manipulation, her projects delve into the complexities of human existence and... Read more
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5 Asian American–Led Galleries Building Inclusive Art Communities
21 May 2024 Since the term “Asian American” was coined by activists in 1968 to foster a sense of community among a diverse... Read more -
Sun Woo at Make Room
Sun Woo featured in CARLA 23 April 2024 In Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s genre-spanning 1982 book Dictée , the Korean American artist writes: “Being broken. Speaking broken. Saying... Read more
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A Report on the Action at Expo Chicago, From an ‘Extra Spicy’ Party to Sold-Out Booths
Cathleen Clarke & Make Room featured in Artnet 16 April 2024 This past weekend, right on the eve of the Venice Biennale, the art scene in Chicago was bursting with energy.... Read more -
Emerging Painter Kira Maria Shewfelt Transforms Moments of Passion into Surreal Canvases
Kira Maria Shewfelt featured in Artsy 16 April 2024 When Los Angeles–based artist Kira Maria Shewfelt began painting kisses, she encountered a problem: On canvas, these passionate images appeared... Read more
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Under New Ownership, EXPO Chicago 2024 Maintains Its Midwestern Charm
Cathleen Clarke & Make Room featured in Artsy 12 April 2024 It might be in its 11th edition, but EXPO Chicago is embarking on a new chapter. This year’s fair—the largest... Read more -
How the Light Gets In
Off a residential street in Hollywood, Terence Koh is tending to a garden 8 April 2024 Spring in Los Angeles is unpredictable, a brief and welcome reprieve from the hot, monotonous summer days that follow. We... Read more
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Xin Liu
Xin Liu wins the inaugural K11 Artist Prize 30 March 2024 K11 Art Foundation and the K11 Art Foundation International Council today announce Xin Liu as the recipient of the inaugural... Read more -
A Terrific Conversation with Kira Maria Shewfelt
Kira Maria Shewfelt is a Los Angeles-based artist whose paintings engage elements of storytelling and a translation of personal into shared experience. 28 March 2024 Taking influence from the literary and visual genres of Magical Realism, Symbolism,m and Romanticism, her work engages physical-spiritual unions, tangible,... Read more
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Xin Liu by Danni Shen
Contemplating cryogenics, sci-fi, death, and an aesthetics of failure via technology. 18 March 2024 Xin Liu is an artist and engineer based in London and New York City. Among many endeavors ranging from national... Read more -
‘People Are Lonely’: Terence Koh’s New Project Is the Ultimate Anti-Spectacle–He’s Serving Coffee in L.A.
Under an earthen dome, Koh sits at a tiny campfire boiling his brew. 14 March 2024 “I was drinking like eight coffees a day trying to figure this out,” Terence Koh was telling me last month,... Read more
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‘You have to come in knowing your taste and trusting your instinct’: Emilia Yin's survival guide for fairs
Emilia Yin featured in The Art Newspaper 14 March 2024 The dealer Emilia Yin, who owns the Hollywood-based gallery Make Room, is a formidable collector in her own right. She... Read more -
Collectors: Emilia Yin
Hypeart caught up with Yin to discuss the mission behind her gallery Make Room and how it differs from her at-home curation. 27 February 2024 Representation has always been more than just a buzzword for Chinese curator and gallerist Emilia Yin . When she arrived... Read more
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Fragmented: Yeni Mao
Understanding Yeni Mao's sculptural practice is understanding that transformation sits at the center — whether it's transformation of the body, material, mind, objects, or one's disposition to their environment. 23 February 2024 Tethered to this interest in transformation are explorations of otherness, the impermanence of material, transnational identities, and issues of fragmentation... Read more -
The Anti-Frieze: The Best Art Shows to See Outside the Fairs
Coffee Time With Terence Koh at Make Room 23 February 2024 While Frieze Los Angeles , Felix and Spring/Break Art Show will certainly be the draw of the international collecting crowd... Read more
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Redwood, Waste Plastic and Rose Quartz: Sculpture at Frieze Los Angeles
The 2024 edition of Frieze Los Angeles is an arena for sculptural experimentation, with Jesse Schlesinger, Yeni Mao, vanessa german and Mustafa Ali Clayton all debuting new work 16 February 2024 Frieze Los Angeles 2024 sees a surge in artists working in sculpture, stretching and honing the medium’s potential with innovative... Read more -
Take an artistic voyage from Troy to Bahia with these shows inspired by history
Yuri Yuan in Los Angeles Times 10 January 2024 Voyage through Yuri Yuan’s latest works in her latest gallery exhibition titled “A Thousand Ships.” The show pulls from Natalie... Read more
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In Her L.A. Debut, South Korean Artist Guimi You Taps Into the Sublimity of Everyday Life
The artist's debut solo exhibition "Winter Blossom" is now on view at Make Room Los Angeles. 29 November 2023 The painted world of emerging artist Guimi You is both intoxicatingly dreamy and slightly out of focus. Hazy passages of... Read more -
Guimi You Finds the Poetic Possibilities of Paint
You’s paintings exude a sense of sweet, childlike wonder, where each moment is filled with possibility. 23 November 2023 HyperAllergic Read more
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INTERVIEW: Californian sunshine, Seoul winter inspire You Guimi's canvases
Guimi You interview with Korea Times 7 November 2023 Korean artist You Gui-mi, also stylized as Guimi You, presents her solo exhibition 'Winter Blossom' at Make Room LA, artfully... Read more -
Sun Woo, Make Room featured in Artillery
31 October 2023 In “Swamps and Ashes,” Sun Woo reflects on the contemporary desires and fears borne from our increasing interaction with and... Read more
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Collector’s Diary: Beth Rudin DeWoody Reflects on Jam-Packed Art Journeys in New York and Los Angeles
Yassi Mazandi & Shana Hoehn in ARTnews 16 October 2023 This spring has been quite a whirlwind, and it’s hard to remember everything I saw. I typically use photographs to... Read more -
The Best and Worst Artists of Our Time are Sending Their Work into Space
Xin Liu in Art in America 16 May 2023 OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, TECH BROS have been counting on artists to generate hype—and ROI. It can be hard... Read more
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Data Spotlight: Artists to Watch at New York’s May 2023 Fairs
Guimi You in Artsy 4 May 2023 Peak New York art season is upon us. In addition to a raft of galas, marquee auctions, and gallery openings,... Read more -
Julia Maiuri’s Noir Deconstruction
Julia Maiuri's show at Make Room featured in ArtReview 27 April 2023 Overlapping pairs of manicured hands clutch shiny keys; an open mouth hovers above a heart-shaped locket. These are images laden... Read more
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The 10 Best Booths at Frieze Los Angeles 2023
Guimi You & Shana Hoehn in Artsty 17 February 2023 Returning to the City of Angels for its fourth edition, Frieze Los Angeles features 120 galleries from 22 countries around... Read more -
Make Room Announces Grand Opening of New Gallery Space in Hollywood
3 February 2023 Los Angeles, C A - Make Room, a contemporary art gallery established in 2018, owned and directed by Emilia Yin,... Read more
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Jacopo Pagin's First Institutional Solo Exhibition in Asia
"Strategies Against Time" opens with Pond Society. 7 January 2023 Make Room is proud to announce Jacopo Pagin's first institutional exhibiton in Asia with Pond Society, Singapore. 'Strategies Against Time'... Read more -
10 Emerging Artists to Watch at Frieze Los Angeles 2023
This year’s Focus section promises a hotbed of up-and-coming talent, from an ambitious installation of ceramics by Sophie Wahlquist to Edgar Ramirez’s visceral works reflecting on the dystopian fabric of the city 15 December 2022 This year's Focus section showcases artists who link both personal and collective narratives of immigration across generations, through the dystopic... Read more
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Decorum and Decay: Watching Astra Huimeng Wang Watching You
Astra Huimeng Wang in Artillery Magazine 8 November 2022 On a sweltering September afternoon, I visited artist Astra Huimeng Wang as she was in the final stages prepping for... Read more -
Make Room artists included in group exhibition at Simon Lee Gallery in London
Guimi You, Miguel Angel Payano Jr., Astra Huimeng Wang, Jacopo Pagin, Yuri Yuan and Xin Liu 9 August 2022 Works by Guimi You, Miguel Angel Payano Jr., Joeun Kim Aatchim, Astra Huimeng Wang, Jacopo Pagin, Yuri Yuan, Shana Hoehn,... Read more
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5 Artists on Our Radar in July 2022
Guimi You featured in Artsy Editorial 1 July 2022 “Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series produced by the Artsy team. Utilizing our art expertise and access to... Read more -
Artist Xin Liu Lets Science-Backed Absurdity Take the Wheel
The artist and MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative Arts curator makes work that explores why the seemingly impossible is possible. 28 June 2022 Artist Xin Liu believes the universe is like a diner: if you don’t tell the waiter what you want, how... Read more
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Jacopo Pagin, I'll Be Your Mirror
Jacopo Pagin in Painters Painting Paintings 8 June 2022 Brought up in Vicenza, a small town close to Venice, Jacopo has seldom been short of surroundings to marvel at,... Read more -
Joeun Kim Aatchim at Make Room Los Angeles
Review of Joeun Kim Aatchim's Solo Exhibition 22 May 2022 In 사자굴 [Sajagul] — Then, out of the Den at Make Room Los Angeles , Joeun Kim Aatchim uses her... Read more
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Make Room Takes Art Brussels
Make Room continues carving out space for artists whose stories subvert the status quo, offering insight into otherworldly realms that are transmutations of their reality. 22 May 2022 As of late, the Los Angeles gallery, helmed by Emilia Yin , has found itself in Brussels, participating in this... Read more -
Jacopo Pagin
Jacopo Pagin's "Sleepless Dream" acquired by Zhi Museum in Chengdu 15 May 2022 Make Room is proud to announce the acquisition of Jacopo Pagin’s work 'Sleepless Dream' by Zhi Art Museum in Chengdu,... Read more
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Gallerist Emilia Yin Is Making Room for Asian Diasporic Artists in Los Angeles
Emilia Yin featured in Artsy Editorial 14 April 2022 It is Emilia Yin’s eighth year in Los Angeles and her fourth since founding Make Room , a gallery that... Read more -
Yuri Yuan
Alumna Yuri Yuan '21 Awarded Elizabeth Greenshields Grant 1 March 2022 Alumna Yuri Yuan ‘21 was recently announced as a recipient of her second grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Based... Read more
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Guimi You
Museum Acquisition by the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami 1 February 2022 Make Room is pleased to announce the acquisition of Guimi You's 'Morning' (2021) to the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami,... Read more -
Xin Liu
Slow Factory: The Revolution is a School at MoMA PS1 January 22 - April 23, 2022 14 January 2022 Xin Liu’s work Orbit Weaver will be entering MoMA PS1 this January 22nd as part of Slow Factory: The Revolution... Read more
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WOAW GALLERY X MAKE ROOM LOS ANGELES COLLABORATE ON GROUP SHOW URBAN WHISPERS
WOAW GALLERY 15 DECEMBER 2021 - 12 JANUARY 2022 15 December 2021 Woaw Gallery and Make Room Los Angeles are pleased to announce a two-chapter group exhibition, Urban Whispers . The first... Read more -
Make Room Founder and Director Emilia Yin named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30
Yin was included in the Magazine's 30 Under 30 2022 list for Art & Style 1 December 2021 In 2018, Emilia Yin founded Hollywood, Los Angeles contemporary art gallery Make Room to feature work by diverse artists. Since,... Read more
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Xin Liu
"Wandering Mind" by slow immediate (Xin Liu and Gershon Dublon) to be featured as part of the MAXlive 2021: The Neuroverse festival 5 November 2021 Xin Liu and Gershon Dublon, as slow immediate, will present their performance work 'Wandering Mind' at MAXlive 2021: The Neuroverse.... Read more -
Xin Liu
"The Ground is Falling" at Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao 8 October 2021 Aranya Art Center will play host to Xin Liu's solo exhibition, The Ground is Falling . Curated by Iris Long,... Read more
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Joeun Kim Aatchim, Catalina Ouyang, Guimi You, Yuri Yuan
"My Secret Garden" at Asia Art Center, Taipei 18 September 2021 Joeun Kim Aatchim, Catalina Ouyang, Guimi You, Yuri Yuan are all featured in Asia Art Center's newest exhibition, My Secret... Read more -
Xin Liu
"Synthetic Wilderness", curated by Jesse Damiani, at Honor Fraser Gallery 12 September 2021 Video and sculptural work by Xin Liu is featured in Synthetic Wilderness , a trio group show at Honor Fraser... Read more
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Catalina Ouyang
"White Male Ally" at Lyles & King, New York 1 September 2021 White Male Ally , an exhibition of Catalina Ouyang's recent work, will be on view at Lyles & King September... Read more -
Peng Ke
Frieze LA commissions Peng Ke to fabricate digital art that will be sold as an NFT. 16 July 2021 Every Second (2021) by Peng Ke has been included in a brand-new section of this Frieze Viewing Room, curated by... Read more
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Yuri Yuan
Yuri Yuan is selected as one of the shortlisted artists for AXA Art Prize 29 June 2021 Congratulations are in order for Yuri Yuan, who has been selected for the AXA Art Prize shortlist. The AXA Art... Read more -
Catalina Ouyang
Opening Thursday March 25: "In Practice" at Sculpture Center 21 March 2021 Catalina Ouyang will be part of this year's In Practice exhibition at Sculpture Center, curated by Katherine Simone Reynolds, alongside... Read more
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Astra Huimeng Wang
Premiere Today: In collaboration with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra 12 March 2021 In collaboration with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, whose 2020-21 season features classical music performances set to artwork created by invited... Read more -
Xin Liu
Xin Liu’s Living Distance (2019-20) is on view on e-flux Video & Film from Feb 22 through Feb 28 22 February 2021 Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Xin Liu’s Living Distance (2019-20), on view from... Read more
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Catalina Ouyang
Catalina Ouyang's solo project “the siren” is now on view at Real Art Way 17 February 2021 As the recipient of Real Art Award 2019, Catalina Ouyang solo project “the siren” is now on view at Real... Read more -
Catalina Ouyang
Selected as Sculpture Center 2021 In Practice artists 1 February 2021 SculptureCenter is excited to announce the 2021 In Practice artists! The exhibition will include newly commissioned sculpture, audio works, and... Read more
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Introducing [Room] by Make Room
A new initiative to support experimental projects and collaborations across different disciplines. 16 January 2021 Make Room is pleased to announce [Room] , a new initiative to support experimental projects and collaborations across different disciplines.... Read more -
Xin Liu
Congratulations to Xin Liu on receiving the 1st X Museum Triennial Award 1 December 2020 The “X Museum Triennial Award” aims to provide an outlook on the future of contemporary Chinese Art from different perspectives... Read more
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Xin Liu
Xin Liu’s “Tear Set” opens today at Yuz Museum as part of “Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa” 12 November 2020 2020.11.12 Xin Liu’s “Tear Set” opens today at Yuz Museum as part of “Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa”, an exhibition... Read more -
Catalina Ouyang
Catalina Ouyang’s solo exhibition “cunt waifu” opens at Lyles & King today and on view through December 6 4 November 2020 2020.10.31-2020.12.6 Read more
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ASMA
ASMA participates in Manifesta 13 in Marseille, France 28 September 2020 2020.9.28-2020.12.14 The exhibition Anima Mundi gathers several international artists (Sterling Ruby, Dewar & Gicquel…) in the ancient crypts of the... Read more -
Xin Liu
Slow immediate on Ars Electronica 11 September 2020 2020.09.11 Hearing/Recording/Wandering slow immediate: Gershon Dublon (US), Xin Liu (CN/US) Our work has always been a search for planetary connection.... Read more
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Xin Liu
Queens Museum home visit 17 June 2020 2020.06.17 A Free Fall in New York City , a video that chronicles artist Xin Liu 's experience sheltering in... Read more -
Xin Liu
Sleepwalk - commissioned by Onassis Foundation and Queens Museum 18 May 2020 2020.05.18 Sleepwalk is a solitary adventure game in which you find yourself confined to your apartment in New York City... Read more
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Xin Liu
on the list fo Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2020 1 April 2020 2020.4.1 Liu Xin is the art curator of the MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative, which develops technologies, tools and... Read more -
Xin Liu
Sojourner2020 successfully launched on board SpaceX CRS-20 to the International Space Station (ISS) 8 March 2020 2020.03.08 (Cape Canaveral, FL—March 6, 2020) The MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative’s art payload, Sojourner2020 successfully launched on board... Read more
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Catalina Ouyang
Solo Exhibition "It has always been the perfect instrument" opens tonight at Knockdown Center, on view through April 12 29 February 2020 2020.2.29-2020.4.12 Catalina Ouyang: it has always been the perfect instrument is a multimedia exhibition of large-scale interactive sculpture, salvaged objects,... Read more -
Xin Liu
Xin Liu participates in the first edition of X Museum triennial 17 January 2020 2020.3.17 Read more
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