A vast void echoes a fast-paced track by Sanjonas, one half of the Yogyakarta music duo Loreng & Sanjonas, as a seemingly arbitrary melange of objects present themselves. A police officer from the Special Duties Unit is suspended mid-air and coiled with barb wire. Next to it, a defaced statue, as spotlights and laser beams flash amidst a cloud of smoke. As the scene develops, a high-tempo chaos ensues, and you're forced to question what's in front of you. Hyperreality? The beta version of a CGI cityscape? A no man's land saturated with violence, debris and apolitical bodies? For Shanghai-based artist ChillChill, the spatial dimension of our reality can no longer be distinguished between what's online and what's offline. Taking visual cues from present-day movements such as the sharing economy, mukbang, and the Occupy Movement, his works presents a reality that is captured, uploaded, cropped, edited and superimposed with a filter. In recent days, these images seem to have escaped the confines of the screen, uniting to expand their influence and create a new visual order. “I'm less concerned by the meaning of these objects than I am interested in a new aesthetic language produced by these movements,” the artist writes. Perhaps these subjects might be loaded, but perhaps they might also be meaningless.
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