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Zhuang Hui 莊輝
Dan'er 旦兒
O Tempora, O Mores! 世道
2008
O Tempora, O Mores! is a short documentary that traces Zhuang Hui and Dan Er’s multi-year collaborative project of transforming anonymous images into paintings. Between 2000 and 2005 the artists trawled the infinite visual landscape of the internet, collecting thousands of images, sometimes touching on topical social issues in China such as a campaign to boycott Japanese products, and a crackdown on prostitution in karaoke bars. From 2006 to 2007, the duo produced a series of fifty paintings in close collaboration with other artists including Qiu Xiaofei, Zhang Baijun, and Ma Yunfei. This translation of images across mediums and contexts forms an unofficial, grassroots micro-history of contemporary China in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Besides reflecting on the glut of images that shapes contemporary reality, the documentary also considers the collapse of the private sphere into the public, and the increasing tendency for people to live out their messy intimate lives in a very impersonal arena.
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