图像研究
Image Study

图像研究

Image Study

7 minutes 49 seconds, Single-channel HD video (1400 x 872), color, sound, 2014

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Image Study capturing of my computer screen. After zooming out from a picture of Roland Barthes smoking in front of his desk, a tutorial video on how to roll a cigarette recorded by the front camera of the MacBook popped out. Along with this “how to roll a perfect cigarette” tutorial, another window appears showing “how to create a perfect image”, where artists appropriates various “tutorial clips” from different contexts, from photoshop tutorial on YouTube to the making of a Playboy magazine cover filmed by Harun Farocki, and photo-shooting scenes from the film Blow-Up. Corresponding to these different versions of how-to video, the artist declared in the work that “I would only use a camera as a last resort,” indicating that in the world where the spectacle is always on the scene, there is no need to produce any more new images to create a film.

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