Not exact matches
When mathematicians work
together in front of a blackboard, they communicate in subtle ways
with their voice and
body language, clues that will be lost in online collaborations.
In a sense, In the Mood for Love tries to duplicate Happy
Together «s similarly improvised final form: one couple's dynamics are replaced
with another's; Hong Kong on the eve of June 1997 becomes Hong Kong on the eve of the Cultural Revolution and the escalation in Vietnam; the Taipei subway becomes a Cambodian temple; and the falls at Iguazu find their equivalent in the secret desires locked in Li - zhen's heart, betrayed by her too - eloquent
body language and mournful gaze.
The exhibition brings
together a great range of artistic practices and
languages (photography, video, painting, sculpture, installation...), cultures, geographic origins, generations and experiences, to establish a tension between extremely different artistic approaches: melancholy of vanity, ironic play
with identity, political biography and existential questioning, the
body as sculpture, effigy or fragment of its symbolic substitute.
Exploring the entanglement of the voice
with battleground concepts in HIV / AIDS activism like agency, citizenship,
language, representation, inter-subjectivity, and the
body, the exhibition weaves
together sound and video works, including excerpts from the seminal «Tongues Untied» (1989) by Marlon Riggs, alongside Mykki Blanco's 2016 video of Zoe Leonard's 1992 poem, «I want a president...» directed by Adinah Dancyger.