The exhibition
GZ Calling (2017) by artist Sam Hopkins and David Lalé approaches the tangled China-Africa relationship from the embedded perspective of a private investigator surveilling the export markets of Guangzhou.
The 3-channel video installation envisages a world in which the supply and demand of counterfeit goods has grown to rival Western brand-name capitalism.Through the narrator’s eyes these vast wholesale malls are a bewildering space of cultural collision and exchange, of copies and fakes, dreams and paranoia. Based on interviews with investigators and lawyers working on the front line of anti-counterfeiting in China today, GZ Calling (2017) is the first iteration of the film and research project, The Qilin.
The exhibition will be opened at 6pm, followed by a conversation with Sam Hopkins at 7pm.
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