ArtSlant: The Strangeness of Ritual

Amorous Acts: Fang Lu solo show

Arrow Factory, 38 Jianchang Hutong, Beijing, 100007 China

8 September – 24 October, 2012

Peeking through the glazed and systematically inaccessible storefront of the Arrow Factory space (inaccessibility being a usual feature of this small non-profit space’s presentations), a scene reminiscent of a storage space or garage is visible. In amongst the detritus that litters the space—the construction tools, ladders, paint tins, sheets of wood, and bags of unidentifiable materials—a series of television monitors sit on chairs or boxes, and make up the deliberately make-shift presentation of artist Fang Lu’s four short stop-motion videos.

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