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Part 5 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.
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Push the door softly and walk in, Or just stay standing where you are. 2013
Multi-screen video installation; Part 1: Sharjah, eight-channel black-and-white video projection (approximately 20 min); Part 2: Alhambra, eight-channel colour video projection with sound (approximately 15 min)
Yang Fudong shoots on 35-mm film, and his style recalls the black-and-white films of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as later film noir. Recently, he has shifted to creating more abstract works or, as he calls them, "space films".
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation.
© Still: Yang Fudong
Repro: Haupt & Binder
© Text: SB11 Guidebook
Part 5 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.