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Video Art Record
The Book of Rites: In Practice
- Artist
- Shen Xin
- Artist reference
- Year
- 2014
- Medium
- Single-channel video
- Edition
- 2/5
- Format
- Video Art
- Copyright
- © Shen Xin
What does time make possible here that a still image could not hold?
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Look With This WorkWho owns the retelling of history?
The work unfolds from the viewpoint of a dinner guest around a Chinese businessman's proposal to reconstruct the Crystal Palace in Britain. The original Crystal Palace was built for the 1851 Great Exhibition, a site tied to empire, display, memory, and cultural power. Shen Xin uses this scenario to ask who is allowed to retell history, rebuild symbols, and imagine cultural ownership.
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