Eileen Feng + Chaeheun Park: […] in a Fallen City
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Opening Friday, December 13th, from 7PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, January 23rd
[…] in a Fallen City by Eileen Feng + Chaeheun Park, opens next Friday, December 13. The opening reception will be held from 7-9 pm.
…theme is cyberflânerie, modern living (“a city, a world in miniature”), cityness, cult of oneself, commodity fetishism… To quote Benjamin himself, “Empathy with the commodity is fundamentally empathy with the exchange value itself. The flâneur is the virtuoso of this empathy.”
Excerpt from email correspondence between hardboiled and the artists
The title is taken from writer Eileen Chang’s novella ‘Love in a Fallen City,’ a love story that triumphed during the wartime Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 1940s. What happened between the British and the Japanese forces on the battlefield during the Sino-Japanese War was concealed by the pretense of melodramatic romance. The city becomes the space and object of Chang’s writings. She captures the flavors of urban life the same way as Benjamin tries to understand the captivating appeal of cultural commodities.
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