Art|Unlimited
Art|Unlimited
Art|Unlimited
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
138 |Art Unlimited<br />
WANG JIANWEI<br />
Title | Symptom, 2007/08<br />
Media |HDvideo, 16:9, color, 5.1 sound; 32min 16 sec; edition 2of5<br />
Artist |Wang Jianwei, *1958, Sichuan, China<br />
Lives and works in Beijing, China<br />
Gallery |Long March<br />
Long March Space<br />
CN -100015 Beijing |798 Art Zone, 4Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District<br />
Phone +86 1059789768|Fax +86 1059789764<br />
lm@longmarchspace.com |www.longmarchspace.com<br />
Director |LuJie, David Tung, Li Danqing<br />
Artwork Description |Pioneering video and multimedia artist Wang Jianwei is known for his conceptually<br />
complex, multifaceted explorations of the paradoxical presence of history<br />
in contemporary China. The resistance towards any single defining principle to<br />
convey the entirety and complexity of the truth is the key to Wang Jianwei’s<br />
practice. Amongst the juxtaposed scenes in his video work are theories and<br />
hypotheses concerning the boundaries between the real, the fictional, and the<br />
imagined.<br />
Symptom (2007/08) isasingle-channel video installation, in which parallel<br />
realities are tobeinterpreted by the viewers inamethod similar to how a<br />
patient’s symptoms are read by adoctor. Wang Jianwei also draws from Karl<br />
Marx’s notion of ‘symptom’ and, further, he employs Louis Althusser’s ‘symptomatic<br />
reading’ ofMarx’s ideas and theories. The video installation sets out to<br />
create an all-encompassing experience, fully immersing the viewer in aconfrontational<br />
environment.<br />
Symptom, 2007/08
Change language