Zhao Dayong : Shadow Days Independent film from China

15 May-27 May 2017

Overview

Cooper Gallery presents Shadow Days: Independent film from China, an exhibition of three films by award winning Chinese independent filmmaker Zhao Dayong at Centrespace. The exhibition, curated by Cooper Gallery, is Zhao Dayong’s UK debut and will feature his internationally celebrated works; The High Life (2010), Shadow Days (2013) and Street Life (2006) and is part of the city wide cultural festival, Ignite Dundee 2017. Zhao Dayong is one of most distinctive voices in Chinese Independent Film today. Much of Zhao Dayong's film has explored themes of existential anxiety and spiritual bankruptcy in the face of a China that is rapidly transforming - in which history, culture, meaning, and even love and family, are often destroyed in the pursuit of mirages of prosperity. Visually, Dayong's works combine a strong artistic sensibility with an eye for the raw, revealing and poetic details.