Saprophyt at School, Fang Lu

Screening 7pm

We are happy to host the artist Fang Lu in Vienna for a screening of her recent work.

No World, single channel video, 18’, sound, 16:9, 2014

Six youths reside in an empty house. Their everyday life is gaming, the repetition of violent behaviors without actual conflicts and rehearsing forms of march and protest. Their actions evolve out of our everyday life of mediated images and uncertainties. These forms of self-training become a natural instinct and a form of existence.

Sea of Silence, single channel video, 29 minutes, sound, 2015

The work is centered on the idea of speaking about love as a form of action. Three female protagonists, as very distinctive individuals compared to each other, talk to the camera about specific events and experiences when they encounter love. Situated in a remote desert this savage environment becomes a new habitat for them to pursue a new form of living.

Fang Lu is an artist currently living and working in Beijing. She was born in Guangzhou China in 1981.

She received her BFA from the Graphic Design department at the School of Visual Art in New York in 2005, and her MFA from the New Genres department at the San Francisco Arts Institute in 2007. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Boers-li Gallery; Pekin Fine Arts, Arrow Factory, Space Station, Borges Libreria Institute of Contemporary Art; and in group exhibitions such as the 28 Chinese in Rubell Family Collection Museum in Miami, China 8 in Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Pierre Huber Prize show in OCAT Shanghai, My Generation in Tampa Museum, On/Off in Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (2012), Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial.
She is co-founder of Video Bureau, an independent video archive resource in Beijing and Guangzhou.

Saprophyt is an nomadic exhibition space founded and based in Vienna.