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The mystery of the spectacle

Taipei Art Awards winner Wang Ting-yu’s series of oil paintings explore the media-manufactured fantasies that shape our vision of reality

By Ho Yi  /  STAFF REPORTER

Wang noticed something interesting after he completed the series.

“I found that 80 percent of the movies I collected end with landscapes. The camera lingers [on the last scene] and gradually pulls away from it. It’s like the soul departing from the body and flying towards the sky,” he said.

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