Can an exhibition be a novel? Can a novel be an exhibition?
Almighty crossover creator btr "exhibition novel collection".
Art is a real-world laboratory, bigger than reality.
《Shanghai Capsule》
Author:btr
Publisher: Beijing Daily Press
This is the latest collection of novels by writer/translator/critic btr who was born and lives in Shanghai, or rather, the latest solo exhibition, and you are welcome to watch/visit.
BTR is obsessed with fresh and interesting narratives, the new work "Shanghai Capsule" contains 19 "exhibition novels", building 19 exhibition halls out of thin air, entering from the entrance, in the space built of words and pictures, you can freely watch, imagine, wander, and shake with him...
In btr's pen, you can always expect that somewhere, art will suddenly pour into reality and change it. Like collecting objects for a vast and complicated museum, Btr watches, imagines, wanders, and always slides lightly into another space in those moments of epiphany. Art intervenes between man and the world, and the 19 stories are like 19 mirror halls reflected in the virtual reality, and 19 journeys involving the virtual and the real, preserving the wonderful capsules full of myths for the urban life of our time.
About the Author
btr: Writer, translator, creator and contemporary art critic living in Shanghai. His publications include Shanghai: Notes on Urban Life (2003), Lost nerves (2013), Mini (2016), Meaning (2017), etc. Translations include Paul Auster's Loneliness and What It Creates (2009), Thatch's Cruel Minimalist Thinking (2013), and Paul Auster's Winter's Notes (2016).
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Sun Jun
Photo/ Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Sun Jun
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Li Yani