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Teil 4 der Fototour durch die Sharjah Biennale 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13. März - 13. Mai 2013. Kuratorin: Yuko Hasegawa. Mehr als 100 Beteiligte.
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Welcome to the Desert of the Real. 2010
Fünfkanal-HD-Farbvideoinstallation mit Ton
(Detail)
The starting point for this installation is the true story of a sixteen-year-old boy who moved with his family from a small Chinese village to the city. The teenager struggles to maintain his identity among the urban crowds and gradually escapes into the virtual reality of online gaming, until he can no longer distinguish between fantasy and real life. Other videos relate tales of a street vendor who dies in her home, an indifferent middle-aged man, an unexpected incident in an Internet café and the mental breakdown of a cyclist. Connections occur between the boy and these other characters, questioning the boundaries between the real and the imagined. In this setup, each video is shown in a separate viewing box. Viewers can only watch the videos individually, although the sound from all five seeps into the gallery space.
© Still: Wang Jianwei
(Repro: Haupt & Binder)
© Text: SB11 Guidebook
Teil 4 der Fototour durch die Sharjah Biennale 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13. März - 13. Mai 2013. Kuratorin: Yuko Hasegawa. Mehr als 100 Beteiligte.