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Who Is the Most Lovable Person?
Song Ta
- Artist
- Song Ta
- Year
- 2014
- Medium
- 3-channel video
- Duration
- 3 min 40 sec
- Format
- Video Art
- Copyright
- © Song Ta
What does time make possible here that a still image could not hold?
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Look With This WorkPublic memory placed inside everyday entertainment
Song Ta begins from the famous 1951 essay Who Is the Most Lovable Person? and invites active-duty navy members to ride a roller coaster in Guangzhou. The work brings a heroic public memory into an amusement park setting. This contrast reopens the image of the soldier, not as a fixed symbol, but as something that can be seen again through ordinary pleasure, speed, and spectacle.
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