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My Chinese Family 我的中國家庭
2004
My Chinese Family takes place at Window of the World theme park in Shenzhen. The park features miniature replicas of famous places from around the world and is a popular destination for domestic tourism. In the video, two white children are depicted with Chinese tourists in front of attractions such as the Eiffel Tower and the Nine-Dragon Wall in the Forbidden City. The work also incorporates fragments of dialogue between the boy and his ‘extended family members’ in multiple languages—for example, he asks how to take a photograph in Mandarin, Cantonese, and French. MAP Office, formed by the Hong Kong–based artists Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix, investigates conditions of urban transformation in the Pearl River Delta region. Here, they use the theme park as a lens through which to examine globalisation and its effects on the definition of identity.
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