Wang Bing, l'oeil qui marche

Wang Bing, l'oeil qui marche :  À l’ouest des rails, 2003, vidéogramme © Wang Bing      Wang Bing, l'oeil qui marche :  À l’ouest des rails, 2003, vidéogramme © Wang Bing     Wang Bing, l'oeil qui marche : L’Homme sans nom, 2009, vidéogramme © Wang Bing / Galerie Chantal Crousel      Wang Bing, l'oeil qui marche : L’Homme sans nom, 2009, vidéogramme © Wang Bing / Galerie Chantal Crousel     


The exhibition


Wang Bing, China at eye level 

From life scenes to interviews, the filmmaker immerses the viewer in the reality of the subjects, transcribing the link created between them and, for good reason, his dedication not to editing a story, but to bearing witness to it. The intensity of his work can be seen more fully in the works intended for exhibition, presented in their entirety at the BAL. Père et Fils (2014) integrates in a quasi-huis clos (closed-door) of one and a half hours the daily life of two teenagers waiting for their father's return from work: as time goes by, indicated only by the fading daylight, each detail of the room awakens, where the micro-event fascinates. The second, filmed on film in 2005, Traces, records in all the instability of its medium the last testimonies of former labour camps in the Gobi desert. This first use of film translates the fragility of the moments captured: projected on the ground, we follow the filmmaker's eyes riveted to the ground, lingering on a few bones, scraps of clothing, footprints. It is here, as in all his work, the raw realities of Chinese history, past and present, that Wang Bing wishes to capture, without any filter.

Extract from the article by Camille Renault published in the n°98 issue of the issue Art Absolument.

When


26/05/2021 - 14/11/2021
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