To Protect and Serve

Quelques gouttes suffise... Sofiane, Ivan, Pierre and Mouss all have a different past. They will meet on the same day at the same time on the subway.

2014-2015 i/O跨年演唱会

Your Weight on the Nape ... One morning, a man opens the window of his apartment and sees in the opposite building a presence which he had never noticed before. This unattended event triggers a tormented series of introspective reflections. The man is indeed accustomed to voyeurism and to have a sharp look over his surroundings and the characters that inhabit them, but driven by the desire and the attraction towards the male nude, this time he could decide to dive into action.

Flutter, Flutter... Jasm... 3-channel video installation. Sound by Miya Dudu. An illustration of the words of the romantic song of the same name, and a commentary on it. We see a young man and woman in a large city, dreamily staring. Just like the song, they reflect hope, idealism and emotional purity. But the changes in the city proceed rapidly, and it is a question whether their ideals and feelings will remain untouched by this. Detail pictures:

No Strings An emotionally reclusive Welsh man must spend a night with an outgoing Irish man after an awkward sexual encounter leaves one being stranded.

Close to the Sea 10-channel video installation. Sound by Jin Wang. A concert is being staged at the seaside. Accompanied by various musical instruments, the love story of a young couple is unfolded on the same location. The videos set on the centre display two scenarios taking place simultaneously: one shows a young couple riding a horse along the sea and the other a pair of lovers struggling for survival from a ship accident. The other eight screens deliver at the same time the performance of diverse instruments, a trumpet and a cello played on the rocks, for example. The background music, which is hallucinatory, dreamlike and even uncoordinated, reflects the conflicts between ideals and reality. The young lovers, despite the threat of death, continue with their discussion of ideal, faith and anticipation.

The Revival of the Snake 10 channel video installation. Music:Wang Wenwei. This work tells the end of the story of a soldier going into exile. On a sunny winter's day, the icy ground is stared with snow and life seems as peaceful as the weather. A soldier, escaping from a battlefield, comes to this deserted place which is plagued with the smell of death. He is wandering, attempting to leave this uninhabited world. The only option left to him, however, is walking, ceaselessly and endlessly. What is waiting for him? A hibernating snake is startled awake from its nice dreams and then sees a human, eyes blindfolded and hands bound on the back, kneeling on the freezing ice-covered lake. Who is sentenced to death by the sound of gunshots reverberating around the mountains?

International Male A financially strapped man, yearning for global adventure, invites an international cast of men to his apartment for a series of romantic escapades.

No Snow on the Broken Br... 8-channel video installation, 35mm b&w film transferred to DVD. Music by Jin Wang. A freeze-frame tableau in which seven young men and women, dressed in a haberdasher’s ？nest, look outward from a rocky outcrop; boats slowly drifting across placid waters; lush, unpopulated landscapes dominated by mountains. Like all of Yang Fudong’s work, the narrative is loosely structured, favoring centripetal forces over linear paths. Here, glamorous young men and women are slowly pulled together as, alone or in pairs and quartets, they wend their way toward the eponymous bridge to catch a last glimpse of winter snow; the rabbits, parrots, and stubborn goats on leashes that accompany them hint at the dandyish excess of a bygone era.

Routine Job: A Story of ... Methods used by Scotland Yard in tracking down and arresting car thieves.