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Sight Leak
by Peng Zuqiang
Cina, 2022, 12’15’’
Presented at the 17th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte, 2024
Film part of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images 13th edizione, 2024
Sight Leak, filmed in 16mm black & white, reconfigures Roland Barthes’ memoirs of his 1974 journey to China, published posthumously, from the perspective of a local tourist visiting Changsha; the artist’s hometown.
Barthes’ judgments about China are refracted in the film as fragments of dialogues on class, queerness and desire, responding to the reflections on the same matters elicited alongside Barthes’ sense of eroticism.
Peng Zuqiang (Cina, 1992) Lives and works in Amsterdam.
Among recent exhibitions and screenings: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Kevin Space, Vienna; Cell Project Space, London; E-Flux screening room, New York; videobrasil, Brazil; UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival; Hawick.
Among recent exhibitions and screenings: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Kevin Space, Vienna; Cell Project Space, London; E-Flux screening room, New York; videobrasil, Brazil; UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival; Hawick.