Paul Chan at Magasin 3

Paul Chan: A meditation on a disintegrating world.
Our world?
October 21 – December 17
Curator: Daniel Birnbaum

From the press release: Like fleeting shadows on the ground, we see objects defying gravity. Sunglasses, cars, people - everything is falling against a background in shifting colors. But what appears to be simple shadows are digital animations projected on the floor - a recurring feature in Paul Chan's ongoing series "The 7 Lights".

Magasin 3 has also been showing the video animation "Happiness (Finally) After 35,000 Years of Civilization (After Henry Darger and Charles Fourier)", 2000-2003. The story is a dramatization of how we could achieve a better world, based on the ideas of the utopian socialist thinker Charles Fourier (1772-1837), which Chan has illustrated with an imagery inspired by the eccentric Henry Darger (1892-1973). Paul Chan says that he has animated this in a way he believes Darger would have worked if he had been alive today and had access to the internet and knowledge about contemporary art and photography.

Read more about the exhibition at Magasin 3's homepage
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