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245		0	_aGarden of Mirrored Flowers _c/ Hu Fang. Translated by Melissa Lim
260			_bVitamin Creative Space; Sternberg Press; _c2010
300			_a190p; _c21x13cm
520			_aFang's novel tells the story of a man in the process of designing a theme park, called Garden of Mirrored Flowers, and is an adaptation and transformation of the classical Chinese novel Jin Hua Yuan, or Flowers in the Mirror, from the Qing Dynasty. Beginning as a pictorial journey through myriad advertisements and the way they allow for many different entries into reality, Fang depicts parallels between the park's actual construction and how it has been imagined, or how it has evolved out of history. For Garden of Mirrored Flowers is less the vision of one author (Fang) and more the result of reality writing itself through this author; that is, a script, or documentary, of life. “It's a book,” Fang states, “written by a ghost writer. Me? Just a traveler floating within the wave of globalization.” Culminating with the park's opening ceremony, Fang creates a space where history seems to have been completely consumed and absorbed by contemporary social movements. It is both a labyrinth to get lost in and a pavilion made of reflective glass.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aN4390-5098 Visual Arts. Exhibitions _95188
700			_aHu Fang _95189
700			_aLim, Melissa _95190
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