Trinity

2019 - Film & Video (Film & Video)

18:26 minutes

Wang Mowen

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In Trinity , Wang Mowen uses video to tell the story of a young woman who wants to know the whereabouts of a person born sixty years ago. She visits three fortune tellers and provides the person’s birth date. Each psychic deliberates and comes to the correct conclusion that the woman in question is the seeker’s mother. Two of the fortune tellers say that the woman is alive and well, but far away. Only one explains that she died six years ago and has been wandering ever since, lost in what could be considered to be the bardo, somewhere between death and rebirth. Trinity is an innovative tale told as a hybrid of reality. Wang Mowen masterfully combines the techniques of documentary-style realism and of fiction’s fabrication, here through the use of special effects tools. Skillfully created, the enigmatic video describes the split between the worlds of the mental and the physical; how the living regard death and the dead, and how the physical world is ephemeral, nearly as illusory as our mental processes. The artist infers that we need to consider how social media is contributing to the reshaping of such ideas.

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Trained as a photographer, artist Wang Mowen was born and raised in Dalian and she currently lives and works in Beijing. Her film work combines techniques of documentary-style realism and of fictional fabrication through the use of special effects tools. An emerging artist Wang Mowen belongs to the latest generation of video and media-makers based in mainland China. With interest in the documentary nature of images, her art practices are mostly based on her own life experiences, reflecting her unique subjective world with a combination of documentary and experimental video language. Her artworks focus on exploring the interchangeable expression between reality and non-reality.

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Colors:

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• memory.n.01
• family.n.01
• narrative.n.01
• dreamlike.s.01
• intangible.n.01
• history.n.01
• death.n.01