Ella Raidel
Double Happiness. 2014
Video, 75 min
Ella Raidel’s movie Double Happiness shows how, not far from Guangzhou, a replica of an upper-Austrian village is being built. This is, according to her, the outcome of a globalizing cinematic imagination and an omnipresent visual culture that ultimately will determine all our conditions of life and notions of reality. The specific story about the Austrian village raises many critical questions. Can we claim that the theme park is no longer a model but instead replaces reality and possibly even renders it superfluous? (Henk Slager)
© Still: Ella Raidel
Cortesía 1a Bienal de Asia &
5a Trienal de Guangzhou,
Museo de Arte de Guangdong
11 diciembre 2015 - 10 abril 2016, Guangzhou, China. Tema: Asia Time. Organizador: Museo de Arte de Guangdong. Presidente: Luo Yiping. Curadores en jefe: Henk Slager, Zhang Qing. Curadores: Kim Hong-Hee, Ute Meta Bauer, Sarah Wilson, Sun Ge.