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The Dusk of Teheran 德黑蘭的黃昏

The Dusk of Teheran德黑蘭的黃昏

Chinese
English
Color
Sound
16:9
Single-channel Video
production year /
2014
duration /
04'14

In Iran, many rights of women are suppressed under the name of protecting women. Women are always in a passive position in the frame of marriage law. Entertainment is forbidden for women and female singers are not allowed to give open performances. HK is a traditional place advocating for freedom and women in HK may freely pursue for their own love, dream and lifestyle. I chose to have an Iranian girl, who worked for a theater, reproduce a dialogue between the deceased HK female star Anita Mui and her fans in a private car. The dialogue shows the free pursuit of Anita Mui for love and marriage. I am attempting to seek for the differences and common points presented by people from different nations and areas in the same story frame, and also hope to show the attitude of Iranian women toward life and emotion through such a kind of performance and review the free space for people under the governance of totalitarianism.

在伊朗,很多女性的權利被以保護女性的名義所壓制,婚姻法框架下的女性總是被動的。娛樂是被禁止的,女性歌手更是 不能公開演唱的,而在香港這個有自由傳統的地方,女性可以更自由的追尋自己的感情,理想,生活方式,我選擇讓一個 在劇院工作的伊朗女孩在私人汽車裏重新演繹了香港已故女明星梅艷芳生前在演唱會上的一段與粉絲的對話,這段對話呈 現了梅艷芳對愛情與婚姻的自由追逐,我試圖尋找不同⺠族,不同地域的人在相同故事的框架下,呈現出來差異性與共同 點。

about the artist /

Tao Hui was born in Yunyang, Chongqing, China. He graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute with a BFA in Oil Painting in 2010 and currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Tao traversed into the art of video and installation, drawing from personal memories, visual experiences and popular culture to weave an experimental visual narration, the focus of which is often our collective experience. Running throughout his work is a sense of misplacement vis-à-vis social identity, gender status, ethnicity and cultural crisis, prompting the audience to face their own cultural histories and living conditions. He won the special award of Contemporary Art Archive from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2008 and ‘Art Sanya & Huayu Youth Award’ in Sanya in 2015. He also won the grand prize of 19th “Contemporary Art Festival Sesc Videobrasil”, and was shortlisted for “HUGO BOSS ASIA ART Award for Emerging Asian Artists” and International Competition sector of the KINO DER KUNST festival in 2017. In 2019, he is shortlisted for the inaugural Sigg Prize. Tao Hui has exhibited solo exhibitions at OCAT Xi’an, China and UCCA, Beijing, China. His works have also been exhibited and screened worldwide, include: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France; MACRO ASILO, Rome, Italy; Pino Pascali Museum Foundation, Polignano a Mare (BA), Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Belem Cultural Center, Lisbon, Portugal; The Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland; Contemporary Art Festival Sesc Videobrasil: Southern Panoramas, São Paulo, Brazil; Hong-gah Museum, Taipei; Kyoto Art Center, Japan; Asia Culture Center(ACC), Korea; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; the 4th Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada; Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China; Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China; 11th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China; Para Site, Hong Kong, China.

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