Artwork

I Have Seen You Scared in the Rain (2019 – 2021)
Video installation with dual monitors
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It is a work of AI face swap, created in November 2019. At the peak of the Civil Rights Movement in 1969, Philip Kindred Dick set the background of his novel of human beings and androids in the 1980s. However, when the novel was reprinted and the film Blade Runner was released in 1982, the era that Dick imagined still did not come true (and even VHS was not popular at that time). The story in the film Blade Runner happened in November 2019. However, amid the unrest in 2020, androids still did not appear. Would the work being projected on the ceiling remind you of the impromptu monologue delivered by Rutger Hauer (actor of android Roy Batty) in tears when he was chased down by the human Rick Deckard in the film Blade Runner which was adapted from the novel? In this work, Roy’s face was replaced with that of old Harrison Ford (the actor of the human killer in the film). Ford, over 70, when facing his self in his thirties, was talking about humans’ empathy and his experience in war. They are all talking to you.

Courtesy of the artist

 

 

location: “Advance and retreat of globalization” MAIN EXHIBITION,Macao Museum of Art
16/07/2021~17/10/2021