No Snow on The Broken Bridge – Video Work By Yang Fudong

Born in 1962 as the son of an army officer in Beijing, Yang Fudong was not attracted to art until a soccer injury curtailed his athletic career. Yang is now one of China’s most sought-after artists. In the past five years his photographs and film installations have been the subject of solo exhibitions in nine countries, including a show at the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York.

His most recent and significant project is No Snow on the Broken Bridge, a black-and-white film presented with eight projectors. The result is in entrancing, interconnected experience that is reminiscent of a classical Chinese handscroll painting. Images of nature are woven together with figures that move through the sequences in a dream-like state of inertia.