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Patty Chang 張怡
Shangri-La 香格里拉
2005
Shangri-La is a video installation named after the fictional location of James Hilton’s 1933 novel, Lost Horizon. Fascinated by the story about Zhongdian—a rural town near Tibet that declared itself to be the place upon which Hilton's novel was based—Patty Chang travelled there in 2005 to produce a project involving film, photography, and sculpture. Combining fictional narratives with documentary tropes, Chang’s forty-minute video features scenes of the town’s icon—Snow Mountain—as well as works she created with the local people. These objects include scale models of the mountain made of mirror and Styrofoam, staged wedding photos, an oxygen chamber used to treat altitude sickness, and a cake decorated with images of the mountain and the chamber.
Much of Chang’s work confronts fictions, stereotypes, and misconceptions about Chinese culture, identity, and otherness. Juxtaposing elements of the real and the imaginary, Chang explores a constructed, fictionalised, and touristic version of China as it is perpetuated both inside and outside its borders.
Much of Chang’s work confronts fictions, stereotypes, and misconceptions about Chinese culture, identity, and otherness. Juxtaposing elements of the real and the imaginary, Chang explores a constructed, fictionalised, and touristic version of China as it is perpetuated both inside and outside its borders.
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