
Yejiang / The nightman cometh, 2011 - Yang Fudong
about this work
This photograph is taken during the production of Yang Fudong's Yejiang/The Nightman (2011), and could be considered a high quality film-still. The film Yejiang / The Nightman Cometh is one of the few single-channel projections created by Yang Fudong in recent years. The setting looks like a stage set and shows a snow-covered landscape scene in a suggested theatre of war. An injured warrior in ancient Chinese armor is followed by three equally ghostly figures, clearly from mutually contradictory times and historical backgrounds. There is no narrative thread, no beginning and no end. Having appeared out of nothingness, the warrior departs the scene in the same way, riding away into the snow, unguided and aimless.