Paris Syndrome
Video, 10 min, 2007-2008
A film on longing for something. Paris Syndrome is a psychological disorder, diagnosed on the Japanese working or on vacation in Paris. It is a traumata arising from the inability to reconcile their dream-image and the harsh reality of Paris. Paris as a fairy-tale city, as the city of love, a city of charming Frenchmen. A kind of negative cultural shock. Dream/Simulation/Image/Wish meets Reality/the Real World. Shot in residential areas in Guangzhou (China); where both the environment and the two protagonists seem lost and stuck; lost in context and in time, placed in a world of some past, another utopia or a stage-set of a movie. A reality that becomes an image, frozen; no past, present or future. Paris Syndrome, is the title of a group of works produced since 2007; which also includes, amongst others, a café and a hotel "Paris Syndrome" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig.
Artist's Bio:
Jun Yang is an artist based in Vienna (Austria), Yokohama (Japan) and Taipei (Taiwan). • Yang’s pieces utilize various media including film, installation, performance and projects in the public space, and address different institutions, societies and audiences. Having grown up and lived in various cultural contexts Yang examines the influence of clichés and media images on identity in his work.