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Peony Pavillion: An Object Play
Exhibition Open Time
September 9-20, 2019
Location
Annex, Arthur M. Sackler Building, First Floor
485 Broadway, Cambridge MA
Supervisor
Eugene Wang, Chenchen Lu
Institution
Harvard Chinese Art Media Lab, FAS
Introduction:
In the 16th-century play Peony Pavilion, a young girl falls asleep in a garden. She begins a passionate romance in her dream that, in waking life, becomes an obsession that ultimately consumes her. Dream and reality become fatally entangled: she leaves her self-portrait in a garden, to be picked up, impossibly, by the lover she met in her dream. Conjuring the imaginary world of The Peony Pavilion, this immersive exhibition creates a sequence of spaces in which projected images, architectural components, and objects create a world that straddles reality and illusion. Drawing upon the historical synergy between architecture and theater, the exhibition embeds the narrative of The Peony Pavilion into a deconstructed vernacular house, inviting visitors into the imaginary dimension of Chinese architecture.
Window Section（影纱）
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Conjuring the imaginary world of The Peony Pavilion, this immersive exhibition, or “object play,” creates a sequence of spaces in which projected images, architectural components, and objects create a world that straddles reality and illusion. The exhibition is also a re-examination of the close relationship between Chinese theater and the vernacular architecture of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Covered with wood carvings of scenes from traditional dramas, Chinese vernacular houses become a medium that blurs the boundary between theater and life. Drawing upon this historical interaction between architecture and theater, the exhibition embeds the narrative of The Peony Pavilion into a deconstructed vernacular house, inviting visitors into the imaginary dimension of Chinese architecture.
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Conjuring the imaginary world of The Peony Pavilion, this immersive exhibition, or “object play,” creates a sequence of spaces in which projected images, architectural components, and objects create a world that straddles reality and illusion. The exhibition is also a re-examination of the close relationship between Chinese theater and the vernacular architecture of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Covered with wood carvings of scenes from traditional dramas, Chinese vernacular houses become a medium that blurs the boundary between theater and life. Drawing upon this historical interaction between architecture and theater, the exhibition embeds the narrative of The Peony Pavilion into a deconstructed vernacular house, inviting visitors into the imaginary dimension of Chinese architecture.
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Roof Section（云梦）
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Conjuring the imaginary world of The Peony Pavilion, this immersive exhibition, or “object play,” creates a sequence of spaces in which projected images, architectural components, and objects create a world that straddles reality and illusion. The exhibition is also a re-examination of the close relationship between Chinese theater and the vernacular architecture of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Covered with wood carvings of scenes from traditional dramas, Chinese vernacular houses become a medium that blurs the boundary between theater and life. Drawing upon this historical interaction between architecture and theater, the exhibition embeds the narrative of The Peony Pavilion into a deconstructed vernacular house, inviting visitors into the imaginary dimension of Chinese architecture.
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Pavillion Section（蜃楼）
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