Yang Fudong Exhibition

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) will present the largest career survey of works by internationally renowned Chinese artist, Yang Fudong, in Australia, from Thursday 4 December 2014.

Proudly presented by ACMI as part of its 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 (2014).

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. Today, Fudong is lauded for introducing multi-screen Chinese film installations to the West.

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 that permeate our contemporary, globalised society.

Drawing on Asian and Western cinema (particularly film noir and the French avant-garde), Fudong's dramatic and highly stylised film installations are rooted in the traditions of Chinese literature, philosophy and art. Often described as dreamlike, Fudong's works gracefully transition between layered stories and settings, spanning multiple screens.