CHENG RAN – A FILM IN PROGRESS
2015-09-14The exhibition will focus on works that were conceived during Cheng Ran’s two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. His main medium is video, but Cheng Ran also works in other media such as installation, photography and sound performance. The exhibition’s title, A Film in Progress, alludes to the artist’s 9-Hour Film, which will premiere at the Istanbul Biennial in September 2015. Cheng Ran has been working on this film since 2013 and created a number of artworks that are directly linked to the process of filmmaking. 9-Hour Film is based on three real stories of adventure, exploration, and the pertinacity of enigma. The characters of the three plots are the mountain climber George Mallory, the artist Bas Jan Ader and the crew of the Shandong Lu Rong Yu fishing boat no. 2682. George Mallory disappeared in an attempt to climb Mount Everest for the first time. Bas Jan Ader died during one of his performances. And on Rong Yu fishing boat no. 2682 eleven crewmembers murdered the other twenty-two at sea. Although, in this exhibition, the 9-Hour Film remains a mystery–as A Film in Progress–and is not exhibited, the other works tell us about it.
Opposite – Scenario Hypothesis 2, 2015
Exhibition runs through to October 24th, 2015
Galerie Urs Meile
Rosenberghöhe 4
CH-6004 Lucerne
Switzerland
