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Shadow Player.(Paul Chan)

The New Yorker

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Two weeks before the opening of Paul Chan's current exhibition at the New Museum of contemporary art, a mysterious poster began appearing on walls and billboards in downtown Manhattan. In black type on a white background, it read:

You , will , be the, opening., , , to, end., , the promise and the, threat.

The brief text, composed by Chan, could be read with or without the words that were struck out. Either way, it seemed to carry a message that was ambiguous, elusive, and somewhat ominous, and in this sense it accurately reflected the body of work--in video animations and documentaries, drawings, photographs, and other media--that has made Chan one ...

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