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.
Art Basel HK 2016: Film
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