Art Basel HK 2016: Film

Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Center 24 - 26 March 2016 

Overwhelmed by Japan's 311 Tsunami disaster in 2011, Yuan Goang-Ming conceived video work Landscape of Energy, a doomsday prophecy that portrays a humanless habitat: familiar scenery becomes desolate wasteland, where seemingly all life is annihilated by nuclear energy. The artist questions the omnipresent state power, as his camera slowly pans in a manner of authoritative surveillance, overlooking residential ruins in Taichung, nuclear waste storage facilities, a simulated control room inside the nuclear power plant, and Pingtung’s crowded South Bay near the plant, before it finally returns to the metropolitan skyline of the Tokyo Bay.