Hong Kong included in global public screenings of video for Ukraine by artist Anne Imhof during February
- Giant LED screen on the exterior of Sogo department store will show Anne Imhof video Youth daily at 20:23, symbolising the eve of February 24 Ukraine invasion
- ‘It is important to me to have Hong Kong included in the screening,’ says Imhof, who adds the film’s scenes of a desolate Moscow contain hope of reconciliation
A video created by one of the most influential figures in contemporary art will be shown on the giant LED screen outside Sogo department store in Hong Kong every evening until February 28 as part of a campaign to raise funds for young people affected by the war in Ukraine.
The video, Youth, is an excerpt from a new work by German-born Anne Imhof, ranked one of the 25 most influential women in 2022 by the Financial Times and winner of the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale in 2017.
Youth is a three-minute edit of the 10-minute work, which was filmed on the outskirts of Moscow before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 last year.
The camera follows a group of horses grazing in heavy snow outside derelict, abandoned apartment blocks with no visible human presence. The desolate scene is accompanied by a mournful soundtrack of J.S. Bach’s Erbarme dich, mein Gott (Have mercy, my God) from his oratorio St Matthew Passion.
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Visual artist Anne Imhof to publicly screen Ukraine video campaign in major cities
The same video will be screened in London’s Piccadilly Circus as well as on outdoor screens in Berlin, Milan, Los Angeles, New York, Seoul and Tokyo. A special extended version will show on February 24 to commemorate the first anniversary of the Russian invasion.