Life and Death in Venice / Leben und Tod in Venedig / Vita e Morte a Venezia
by Ming Wong
Ming Wong’s 3-screen video installation is a revisitation of Luchino Visconti’s 1971 film, which was based on Thomas Mann’s novella, Death in Venice, first published in 1912. The book/film’s narrative follows aging protagonist, Aschenbach, on his sojourn to Venice where he meets and secretly pursues Tadzio, a young boy whose uncorrupted youth and beauty becomes his inverse reflection. Years have withered him, and wrestling himself, Aschenbach struggles painfully in his final stages to reconcile the triumphs and failures of his personal and professional life as an artist.
20 years too old and too young to be either Aschenbach or Tadzio, Ming Wong plays the parts of both characters in his latest work Life and Death in Venice. Entirely self-directed, produced and conceived while his presentation Life of Imitation for the Singapore Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale was still on-going, Wong’s new piece puts a decidedly self-reflexive and biographical spin on the notion of ‘arriving’ and ‘departing’ in one’s artistic career and personal life. The work boldly delves into his inner expressivities and uncertainties, laying bare the artist in a state of crisis as he negotiates a growing consciousness of age, the trajectories of change in his private adult life and his professional development.
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