Tao Hui
Excessive, 2015 (front)
HD video (color, sound), glass, projector, silica gel, iron, wood
Duration 19:32 min
The work centers on a girl whose extra finger causes her parents great distress. A film about family, prejudice and otherness, it combines dramatic acting and aspects of great artifice, recalling the aesthetics of Chinese TV dramas and movies.
Tao Hui
Talk About Body, 2013 (back)
video (color, sound)
Duration 03:45 min
The film creates a scenario in which the words spoken by the central speaking figure—surrounded by several adults sitting or standing who face the person seated on a bed—functions as disaffection. The figure, in fact, the artist himself, talks about corporeal and genetic treats associated with racial and regional typology.
Photo © Andrea Rossetti