ShanghART Gallery 香格纳画廊
中文

It is not Complicated, A Guide Book
LI RAN 李然
2016
multi-channel video
Color and sound, dual-channel HD video installation
| EACH 18 minutes 28 seconds | EACH 7 minutes 50 seconds
LR_2644

online view:
1st channel: https://vimeo.com/165825282
2nd channel: https://vimeo.com/165782789
password: lirancopyright


The work is commissioned by curator Biljana Ciric as a part of the project ‘Encounter with Pompidou’ at Centre National d’art et de Culture Georges Pompidou. The text of this two screen video installation originates from the Chinese version of Centre Pompidou’s museum guide. This former Chinese guide book includes 150 selected pieces of the museum collection’s guide (originally written by Jean Poderos and translated by Hu Bin into Chinese). Addressing the audience from various points of view, this guide book is as a signal from a distanced site, spreading our shared understanding of modernism. I divide the work descriptions of the collections into two parts and showcase within two screens, representing two kinds of points of view. The video source is taken from the documentary I shot in Singapore as a tourist, I selected and rearranged the long-lens movie and the close-up shot, matching them with the text, thus reWine two kinds of common logics appear interactively during the processes of artistic production and observation, referring to the modes of the lost ‘wonderer’ and the detached bystander.

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Related Exhibitions:
Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada 10.21, 2017 -02.25, 2018
The Making of an Institution, NTU Center For Contemporary Art Singapore (CCA), Singapore 02.11, 2017 -05.07, 2017
Same Old Crowd, Aike Dellarco, Shanghai 05.28, 2016 -07.10, 2016
Museum On / Off, Center Pompidou-ESPACE, Pairs, France 04.13, 2016 -06.13, 2016