BANK is pleased to announce that Chang's latest installation, Mountain (Shangri-la), is currently featured in the exhibition "New Eden: Science Fiction Mythologies Transformed" at the Art Science Museum in Singapore.
Mountain (Shangri-La) is a dazzling, mirrored, three-dimensional artwork that can be rotated slowly like a prayerwheel to reflect light and emit energy into the surrounding space. Created by American-born Chinese artist Patty Chang, it represents a mythical Eastern paradise first described in James Hilton 's 1933 novel and portrayed in Frank Capra's 1937 film Lost Horizon.
Curious about how it inspired the inhabitants of a rural farming town to rename their hometown' Shangri-la City', Chang travelled to this 'paradise-on-earth' and created an accompanying 40-minute video that, alongside the installation, reflects on the entangled links between tourism economies, fantasies of utopia, and notions of exoticism.
The exhibition will be on view up until March 3,2024.
