Yang Fudong: Twin Tracks
| November 9, 2015 | Post In LEAP 35
![Blue Kylin / A Journal of Shandong 2008 Five-channel video installation, 17 min, Courtesy the artist](http://leapleapleap.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/青麒麟-山东纪事_副本1.jpg)
The title “Twin Tracks,” originating in a Chinese proverb, usually refers to the difficulty of reaching a goal when one is heading in the wrong direction. Yang Fudong’s exhibition guides the audience through separate exhibition spaces in a specific order, allowing perceptions to gradually accumulate.
![East of Que Village, 2007, 6 channel video installation, Courtesy of the artist](http://leapleapleap.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/雀村往东1.jpg)
On the first floor, Blue Kylin / A Journal of Shandong (2008) presents a visual record of rocks being blown up in the mountains, workers carving statues out of stones, and scenes from daily life in the city where the quarry is located. In this exhibition, the installation’s video channels are distributed evenly in a rectangular space; by surrounding the viewer, the film allows the audience to both feel immersed in space and face the film directly, enhancing the realist quality of the work.
![The Colored Sky: New Women II, 2014, 5 channel video, nstallation, music: Wang Wenwei Courtesy of the artist](http://leapleapleap.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/新女性II1.jpg)
Courtesy of the artist
Exhibited in China for the first time, The Colored Sky: New Women II (2014) is a sequel to the previous work New Women (2013). In New Women, changes in the women’s emotions are subtly revealed through reticent and mysterious backward glances. Female figures in the sequel cry out in the rain, and fearlessly play with snakes, pulling the otherworldly fairyland of New Women back towards reality. Images transform rhythmically, with a musical quality. Walls of different colors fusing with light emitted from the monitors interact with transparent, candy-like blocks of color on the screens—a spatial technique that extends the image beyond its frame.
![About the Unkown Girl-Ma Sise, 2013-2015, Films, Photographs, Installations, etc. Exhibition view in CCA Singapore 2013 Courtesy of ShanghART Gallery](http://leapleapleap.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/关于与一切未知的女孩马斯瑟1.jpg)
Exhibition view in CCA Singapore 2013 Courtesy of ShanghART Gallery
The last room, the only brightly lit environment of the exhibition, houses About the Unknown Girl: Ma Sise (2013-2015), a multimedia installation that showcases films and photographs of an actress who has appeared in several works by the artist, captured in her daily life and at work—a life in physical and psychological spaces. Projected on the last wall of the space, a video of Ma walking on the street with a colleague ingeniously draws the exhibition to a close, guiding the audience back to reality.
Translated by Alvin Li
![The Fifth Night, 2010, 7 channel video, installation, 35mm b&w film transferred to HD, music: Jin Wang Courtesy of the artist](http://leapleapleap.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/第五夜1.jpg)
Courtesy of the artist
Yuz Museum, Shanghai
2015.09.01- 2015.11.15