Yang Fudong's recent film installation No Snow on the Broken Bridge was exhibited in London and New York before returning to the artist's native Shanghai. That whirlwind itinerary suitably reflects No Snow's dizzying combination of narrative fragments, surrealist stunts, and lyric interludes, which viewers take in simultaneously on eight screens arranged in an encompassing semicircle. Set to a heavy tonal score, this black-and-white film evokes tense fin-de-siècle decadence in scenes of flapper girls in qipao dresses cavorting with dandies through a Chinese garden. At other times, the camera focuses on weeping willows or rain coming across a lake. Offering no resolution, Yang loops noir apprehension into an interminable suspension of disbelief.

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