In the back of a taxi sits a young local actress wearing a bridal gown and smoking, talking with the driver who remains out of shot, reprising the star's words in Persian. In their new geographical context, these observations on social ambition, the desire for love and the difficulty of finding it become an implied criticism of the restrictions imposed on women in Iran.
© Tao Hui. Photo © Fondation Louis Vuitton / Martin Argyroglo
Tao Hui graduated in painting from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, and now focuses on new media.
His videos and installations combine realism and fantasy in stories about different times and places, drawing on China’s traditional culture as well as its television dramas.
Ten Thousand Waves, 2010
Isaac Julien
RMB CITY secondlife city planning, 2007
Cao Fei
Live in RMB City, 2009
Cao Fei
Tonight Moon (Jin Wan De Yue Liang), 2000
Yang Fudong
My Ideal, 2008
Xiaogang Zhang
New, 2014
Xu Zhen
Eternity-Tianlongshan, Grottoes Bodhisattva, Winged Victory of Samothrace, 2014
Xu Zhen
Sudden Awakening, 2006
Zhang Huan
Great Leap Forward, 2007
Zhang Huan
National Day, 2009
Zhang Huan
All Crows Under the Sun Are Black!, 2012
Yan Pei-Ming
Les Temps Modernes, 2015
Yan Pei-Ming
