This duo exhibition combined Cheng Ran’s recent video and installation works Music is On, Band is Gone and Chen Wei’s In the Waves photographs, which are accompanied by a movie set installation.
The Cinematheque, or film archive, helped give birth to the New Wave cinema (la Nouvelle Vague) in late 1950s Paris. This exhibition invited us to see how a generation of young Chinese were likewise devouring movies and underground music, as evident in the work of two cutting-edge young artists, as a means to find their own modes of expression. This was chi K11 art museum’s first project for 2015.
