1871 is an inverted, upside-down void with six rotating shapes related to basic monument styles. An audio component accompanies the piece in the form of a recorded phone conversation between the artist and her mother about the details of the 1871 massacre in which 18 Chinese citizens were brutally murdered.
Composition by Victoria Fu
Lens Creator: Nico Shi
This initiative is made possible by Snapchat. Major support is provided by Mellon Foundation.
Victoria Fu, 1871, 2023, in collaboration with LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives, © Victoria Fu, image courtesy of Snap Inc. Victoria Fu
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About the Artist Victoria Fu
Victoria Fu (b. Santa Monica, California, USA) is a visual artist who received her MFA from CalArts, MA in Art History/Museum Studies from University of Southern California, and BA from Stanford University. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program and was in residence at Skowhegan. Fu has received grants from Art Matters, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Harpo Foundation, and is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. Her artwork is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. She lives and works in San Diego, where she is Associate Professor of Art at University of San Diego. She is represented by DOCUMENT in Chicago.
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About LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives
Monumental Perspectives brings together artists and technologists to create augmented reality monuments that explore just some of the histories of Los Angeles communities in an effort to highlight perspectives from across the region. In consultation with community leaders and historians, the third and final cohort of artists, Victoria Fu, Yassi Mazandi, Rashaad Newsome, Rubén Ortiz Torres, and Alison Saar, use the lens of collective ancestral memory to examine the individual and communal legacies we leave today.
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