Shānzhài Screens

Every night in Shenzhen, China, a group of copyist painters starts working. Paul Heintz’s third participation in the festival (Non-contractuel, 2016 e Foyers, 2019) will register their daily lives, between art and blue-collar work.
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Frame by frame, we unlock the mystery of Shānzhài Screens. By following the artistic and technological acts of a group of copyists, Paul Heintz reflects about the moment we’re in historically, in terms of art and painting, where the idea of copying a painting seems to transform into copying a screen. (Duarte Coimbra)
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