明年

NEXT YEAR

欧洲对于上海更像一个幻想而不是现实，尽管类似的景致就隐藏在上海的市区里。都市意象的混合——“欧式”婚纱照，自鸣得意的“外派人员”一超越了在地和当下的边界，成为了一个鲜活的杂糅体。其中既有异托邦色彩和未来感，也有复古的气质。由此，生活和工作在柏林的新加坡艺术家黄汉明选择在上海演绎他对法国新浪潮经典影片《去年在马里昂巴德》的解读。

Europe is easier a fantasy than a reality,despite the fact that it’s right on the doorstep of downtown Shanghai.A mix of urban imagerywedding photographs,expat branding-transgresses the boundaries of locality and presence,creating a living hybridity.Something dystopian and futuristic,with a touch of vintage.So it is that Berlin-based,Singapore-born artist Ming Wong came nowhere other when he decided to shoot his version of the French New Wave classic Last Year at Marienbad in Shanghai.Lost in time,Wong’s Next Year recalls an encounter between two main characters both played by the artist himself.Where the original dialogue appears firm and concrete,Wong’s version shifts to a narrative yet to occur,making it a bit suspicious and ambiguous.From Fuxing Park,which retains its original French layout,to a quaint coffee shop called Marienbad,Wong’s Shanghai is caught between its trading heritage and ongoing urban evolution.Infused with allegorical role-playing,Next Year is a narcissistic testimony to the lost and found in a corner of world in flux,a wink at the amnesia of our time.