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Making Chinatown (2012) is a remake of Roman Polanski’s 1974 classic neo-noir film Chinatown . According to Wong, the latter is a “textbook” of Hollywood filmmaking . In Ming’s version, he plays all four main characters portrayed originally by Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, and Belinda Palmer, shooting against a backdrop of a film set reproduced as wallpaper in a gallery space. Presented as a seven-channel video installation, Making Chinatown is an immersive viewing experience with different scenarios, lines of conversation, and background music, all merged together into one space where the sense of time collapses. The ending fades to black with no reference of the original film’s site, precisely echoing the fictional nature of Chinatown as a no-place, constructed in an often-detached cultural context.
Ming Wong’s practice has a profound connection with world cinema. Constantly drawing from classic films, Wong investigates issues around identity, linguistics, translation, dislocation, and history through reenactments of well-known films. Often using a deliberately low-budget aesthetic, he restages the films by appropriating and recontextualizing the main storylines and characters. The compelling cultural imaginary created in his films brings forward and wittily satirizes the undermined codes that constitute the infrastructure of our society.
The Cloud of Unknowing (2011) is titled after a 14th-century medieval treatise on faith, in which “the cloud of unknowing” that stands between the aspirant and God can only be evoked by the senses, rather than the rational mind...
In the series Horizons (2010), Lipps uses appropriation to riff on Modernism’s fascination with abstract form...
The photograph Exquisite Eco Living is part of a larger series titled Executive Properties in which he digitally manipulated the images to insert iconic buildings of Kuala Lumpur in the view of derelict spaces also found in the city...
The Cloud of Unknowing (2011) is titled after a 14th-century medieval treatise on faith, in which “the cloud of unknowing” that stands between the aspirant and God can only be evoked by the senses, rather than the rational mind...
In the series Horizons (2010), Lipps uses appropriation to riff on Modernism’s fascination with abstract form...
Mario Garcia Torres films a game of Charades among professional actors guessing the former North Korean dictator’s favorite Hollywood films...
Prix Marcel Duchamp — 2024 — Centre Georges Pompidou — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Prix Marcel Duchamp — 2024 — Centre Georges Pompidou — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Previous Next Prix Marcel Duchamp — 2024 Exhibition Mixed media Upcoming Prix Duchamp 2024 © ADIAF, photographies : DR Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024 In 8 months: October 12, 2024 → January 12, 2025 Dates et lieu d’exposition provisoires L’ADIAF a dévoilé le 10 janvier 2024 les noms des quatre artistes en lice pour la 24ème édition du Prix Marcel Duchamp, prix majeur de l’art contemporain en France venant célébrer les artistes en milieu de carrière...
Sophie Blet — Pas tout à fait vides, peut-être juste impossibles — L'ahah Moret — Exposition — Slash Paris Connexion Newsletter Twitter Facebook Sophie Blet — Pas tout à fait vides, peut-être juste impossibles — L'ahah Moret — Exposition — Slash Paris Français English Accueil Événements Artistes Lieux Magazine Vidéos Retour Sophie Blet — Pas tout à fait vides, peut-être juste impossibles Exposition Dessin, installations, photographie, vidéo À venir Sophie Blet, dissoudre — coaguler (détail), 2021 © Sophie Blet / Adagp, Paris, 2023 Sophie Blet Pas tout à fait vides, peut-être juste impossibles Dans 5 mois : 27 avril → 18 mai 2024 commissariat : Diane Der Markarian vernissage le 27.04.24, 17h-21h exposition du 27.04 → 18.05.2024 L’ahah #Moret 24-26, rue Moret, 75011 Paris L’ahah est heureuse de soutenir et de présenter le projet de recherche et d’exposition réunissant la commissaire d’exposition et critique d’art Diane Der Markarian et l’artiste Sophie Blet : Pas tout à fait vides, peut-être juste impossibles...
Oliver Laric’s video Versions is part of an ongoing body of work that has continued to evolve and mutate over time...
Wolfgang Tillmans initiated the ongoing series Faltenwurf in 1989, representing compositions of unused clothing, with special attention paid to the ways in which they drape and fold...
In addition to Yang’s signature drying rack and light bulbs, Office Voodoo includes various office supplies like CDs, paper clips, headphones, a computer mouse, a stamp, a hole puncher, a mobile phone charger...
UNHEARD: Hearing Singapore women composers loud and clear | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Jamie Chan March 3, 2022 By Nicole Toh (825 words, 3-minute read) “When do women get to be heard for who we are?” That was the question raised by Rachel Lim, a Singaporean soprano and UNHEARD ’s founder at the start of the concert...