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M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong. By donation, © Jun Yang
Yang Jun 楊俊
Paris Syndrome 巴黎綜合症
2007
Jun Yang was born in Qingtian, China, and immigrated to Austria with his family when he was four. He is currently based in Vienna, Taipei, and Yokohama. His practice frequently explores relationships between images, clichés, and identity.
Paris Syndrome is named for a psychological phenomenon experienced by tourists who are disturbed by the dissonance between idealised conceptions of Paris and the real city. The work is filmed in Guangzhou in a series of recently built housing and office complexes. The camera pans slowly across clustered apartment towers and isolated gardens and courtyards. A man and a woman are often the only people in view. Dressed in business suits or polo shirts, they move rigidly, or else stand still, as if posed. Many of the buildings depicted are stylistic hybrids or copies of European forms; one, a replica of the 1898 Secession Building in Vienna, contains the offices of a real estate company. The audio is quiet, a mix of background noise and music.
Paris Syndrome comments on images of prosperous living in early twenty-first century China. Yang has described the setting and the two people as ‘lost and stuck’.
Paris Syndrome is named for a psychological phenomenon experienced by tourists who are disturbed by the dissonance between idealised conceptions of Paris and the real city. The work is filmed in Guangzhou in a series of recently built housing and office complexes. The camera pans slowly across clustered apartment towers and isolated gardens and courtyards. A man and a woman are often the only people in view. Dressed in business suits or polo shirts, they move rigidly, or else stand still, as if posed. Many of the buildings depicted are stylistic hybrids or copies of European forms; one, a replica of the 1898 Secession Building in Vienna, contains the offices of a real estate company. The audio is quiet, a mix of background noise and music.
Paris Syndrome comments on images of prosperous living in early twenty-first century China. Yang has described the setting and the two people as ‘lost and stuck’.
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