Fiona Tan: Terminology (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography)

(Translated by Google Translate)

It has a mother of Australian father and Indonesian, was born in Indonesia, grew up in Australia, currently active mainly in the Netherlands, the video work of Fiona Tan in the exhibition.

Any work of Fiona Tan is linked line of sight, memory, and history.

2009, presented at the Venice Vu~ien'nare, called a big topic, disk Orient.

In a large room, the two images is flowing. In the opposite wall, so as to slightly slide, just images of the two are not mirrored.

It is also possible to see one by one, the image of either, and it is possible to find a position visible images of both, to look alternately two images.

In one video, of Marco Polo "Oriental Memoirs" is in accordance with the recitation, and provincial cities where was taken up, the current image has been shed.

If in Central Asia, some areas that have not changed much from those days, such as cities in China, there is also a video of city skyscrapers lined.

In the screen of another, and video over a collection, such as the statue of the gods Buddha statues, pottery, of India, the cultural relics of the East such as China and India, the interior of Chinese style, which was based on red, the room like in the museum it is swept away.

Within the two images, past and present, a variety of element storage, goods, such as story, is, are intertwined in a complex, in the head of people who see the video, and entanglement in time, they will committed away at seems.

Work that in Vento Lee is projected on the screen of the six, the image obtained by photographing the Roman sculpture collection of the famous British architect.

The architect, by decorating the home such a sculpture, the impression of Rome visited the young, it seems to have wanted to continue to keep much.

For him, the city of Rome, seems to have not been in the presence should be called the center of the old Roman Empire to the last, that the city, the people of that era live.

Is in the memory of one person, storage of old age. There, memory are overlapping at multiple levels. Tan is trying to Bear in the video, it.

Than September 24 of this exhibition is over, for renovation, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, enters the long closed over two years.

Ever, in this museum, I've been watching the wonderful work photo, video. That for two years, and that will not taste such time, rather than sorry, who was described as a tragedy, more correct.