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Film still of a young woman rushing through a brightly lit tunnel. Her right arm is raised and her mouth is open in a shout. People in the background dressed in coats are walking in the opposite direction. Some of them turn to look at the woman.

Film still of a young woman rushing through a brightly lit tunnel. Her right arm is raised and her mouth is open in a shout. People in the background dressed in coats are walking in the opposite direction. Some of them turn to look at the woman.

Film still of a young woman rushing through a brightly lit tunnel. Her right arm is raised and her mouth is open in a shout. People in the background dressed in coats are walking in the opposite direction. Some of them turn to look at the woman.

Video still showing a figure from the chest up in a white tunnel with passers-by in the background. The tunnel stretches from our lower right area into the distance on our left. The long-haired figure wears a black jacket over a green knitted top and faces us at an angle.

M+, Hong Kong, © Kan Xuan

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Kan Xuan 闞萱

KanXuan Ai! 闞萱哎!

1999

In Kan Xuan! Ai!, we see the artist running through a crowded passage at one of Beijing’s largest underground rail interchanges, Fuxingmen station. Captured in a realist aesthetic with a low-tech feel, she runs against the increasingly busy foot traffic and calls aloud: ‘Kan Xuan!’ The people in the tunnel cannot know that she is calling her own name. They watch the fleeting scene with curiosity but make no significant intervention.

Kan Xuan! Ai! portrays Kan as the archetypal outsider, the maverick going against the crowd, or the awakened individual amidst the masses. This absurdist exercise in staged drama underscores the individual’s psychology within congested urban confines.

Details

Object Number:

2016.55

Object Type:

Related Makers:

Kan Xuan (Artist)

Medium:

single-channel digital video (colour, sound)

Date:

1999

Dimensions:

duration: 1 min. 22 sec.

Audio:

Mandarin

Collection:

Credit Line:

M+, Hong Kong

Copyright:

© Kan Xuan

About the Maker:

Kan Xuan (b. 1972, Anhui) is a graduate from the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. Often working with video, photography, and installation, her work examines linguistic structures, historical tropes, and relationships between humans and objects. Kan has participated in many important exhibitions worldwide, including the 55th La Biennale di Venezia (2013) and the 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennial (2006).

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