Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings
Two Channel Video | 28min | 2017
A work by Bo Wang & Pan Lu
The devastating tropical climate created strong fear and anxiety in the British troops who stationed at Hong Kong after the opium wars. The 19th Century myth of Miasma, the bad air, related epidemic diseases with air, environment and race, which later helped to consolidate the vertical segregation on Hong Kong island. Acclimatization efforts were made in pace with expansion of the British Botanic Empire, a global network of scentific researches of plants, which circulated not only botanic specimens but also images created for the purpose of study. In the particular case of Canton in South China, local commercial artists were commissioned to make plant paintings. This work examines the peculiar dynamics between imperialism, scientific research, race and the right to look in 19th Century Canton.
Screenings & Exhibitions
2022 Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2022 Kathmandu Triennale, Kathemandu, Nepal
2021 Stories from the South, Critical Conditions, bi'bak, Berlin
2021 Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London
2020 Shenzhen Bay STArts Festival, Shenzhen
2020 On the Road, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen
2020 An Impulse to Turn, Inside-out Art Museum, Beijing
2020 Garden of Six Seasons, Para Site, Hong Kong
2019 Hot Flows, University Museum of Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy, Guangzhou
2019 Taiwan Documentary Film Festival in Thailand, Bangkok
2019 DOKUARTS, German Historical Museum/Zeughauskino, Berlin
2019 Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2019 Hot Flows: Pearl River Delta Arts Retrospective in Macao
2019 Throwing Out Bricks, Stall O9 Cubao Expo, Manila
2019 Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Xiamen
2019 Image Forum Festival in Fukuoka, Japan
2019 Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2019 Essay Film Festival, ICA, London, UK
2019 Unidentified Landscape, Hotel Asia Project 2019, Barrak, Okinawa, Japan
2018 OCAT Shenzhen
2018 Image Forum Festival, Japan
2017 Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen/Hong Kong
★★★ Award for Excellence, 32nd Image Forum Festival ★★★ Video Stills
Supported by
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen
Binlong LLC. Shenzhen Scripts
Bo Wang & Pan Lu Camera & Editing & Voice
Bo Wang Produced by
Andrew Lone Gaffer
Zhang Simin Sound Recording
Luo Wei Music
Zhang Shuai
Installation view at 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia
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2022 Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2022 Kathmandu Triennale, Kathemandu, Nepal
2021 Stories from the South, Critical Conditions, bi'bak, Berlin
2021 Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London
2020 Shenzhen Bay STArts Festival, Shenzhen
2020 On the Road, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen
2020 An Impulse to Turn, Inside-out Art Museum, Beijing
2020 Garden of Six Seasons, Para Site, Hong Kong
2019 Hot Flows, University Museum of Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy, Guangzhou
2019 Taiwan Documentary Film Festival in Thailand, Bangkok
2019 DOKUARTS, German Historical Museum/Zeughauskino, Berlin
2019 Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2019 Hot Flows: Pearl River Delta Arts Retrospective in Macao
2019 Throwing Out Bricks, Stall O9 Cubao Expo, Manila
2019 Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Xiamen
2019 Image Forum Festival in Fukuoka, Japan
2019 Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2019 Essay Film Festival, ICA, London, UK
2019 Unidentified Landscape, Hotel Asia Project 2019, Barrak, Okinawa, Japan
2018 OCAT Shenzhen
2018 Image Forum Festival, Japan
2017 Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen/Hong Kong
★★★ Award for Excellence, 32nd Image Forum Festival ★★★ Video Stills
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Supported by
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen
Binlong LLC. Shenzhen Scripts
Bo Wang & Pan Lu Camera & Editing & Voice
Bo Wang Produced by
Andrew Lone Gaffer
Zhang Simin Sound Recording
Luo Wei Music
Zhang Shuai