Curated by Larry Lee
In the mood for love on the Chungking Express as tears go by happy together speaks of neon and noir…
Through an urban space romanticized on the Silver Screen, gazing upon a bygone and faraway era, are these reflections of ourselves: as if love letters composed to the postwar generation. From central casting in the spotlight as iconic images of a bouffant-styled Maggie Cheung elegantly clad in red silk qipao, to pixieish Faye Wong riding the moving walkway for public transportation, or a slick-haired Tony Leung nonchalantly dragging on his cigarette in a smoke-filled room listening to cool jazz or Cantonese pop.
That is the rose-colored lens that Spotlight Series artist, Chien-An Yuan looks through. Lovingly recreating, by way of Hong Kong and Roaring Twenties Shanghai, his own Miami Vice in “City of Light, City of Shadows.” Here to remind us of when Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa were once hailed by the general public as American Hollywood sex symbols.
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