As part of ACMI’s special summer season, China Up Close, this world-first exhibition will showcase three seminal works by Fudong, Ye Jiang/The Nightman Cometh (2011), The Fifth Night (2010) and East of Que Village (2007). It will also feature a brand new work co-commissioned by ACMI and the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Auckland Art Gallery), titled New Women II.
Fudong’s works explore the psychology of a new generation searching for meaning in the modern world. He addresses China-specific cultural and social issues, as well as universal themes of anxiety and disillusion in our contemporary, globalised society. Born in Beijing and based in Shanghai, Fudong was trained as a painter before emerging onto the international arts scene in the early 1990s when he began working with multi-channel video installations, single-channel films and photography. His film installations draw on Asian and Western Cinema, particularly film noir and French avant-garde.
