"Ming Wong: Making Chinatown" is presented by REDCAT with support from
Stacy and John Rubeli; Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard; and Vitamin Creative
Space. Additional support provided by Guest Haus Residency, Los Angeles.

Ming Wong: Making Chinatown
Opening reception: Saturday, February 4 | 6-9pm
Sunday February 5, 2012 - Sunday April 1 2012
REDCAT, Los Angeles
www.redcat.org/exhibition/ming-wong-making-chinatown

Working through the visual styles and tropes of such iconic filmdirectors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wong Kar-wai and Ingmar Bergman, Ming Wong’s practice considers the means through which subjectivity and geographic location are constructed by motion pictures. For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Wong creates a series of video sculptures and scenic backdrops that center around the making of Roman Polanski’s seminal 1974 film Chinatown, with the artist cast as two of the film’s central characters. Filmed on location in the Gallery at REDCAT, Making Chinatown transforms the exhibition space into a studio backlot and examines the original film’s constructions of language, performance and identity.

Singaporean artist Ming Wong is based in Berlin, and has been regarded internationally for his ambitious performance and video works that engage with the history of cinema and popular forms of entertainment.

For more information, please see www.mingwong.org