MADE IN CHINA is a three-channel video installation filmed in Manzhouli, a Chinese border town along the 4,200-kilometre frontier between China and Russia. As a major crossing on the “New Silk Road,” Manzhouli is a key trade site between the two countries. In the 1990s, the artist’s grandfather travelled there more than 33 times as a shuttle trader, often filming his journeys. Thirty years later, she returns to a radically transformed city – now a surreal landscape of oversized Matryoshka dolls, fibreglass mammoths, and Russian replicas. Moving through hotel lobbies, markets, and empty squares, she traces the remnants of past exchanges. Blending found footage, on-site recordings, and layered narration, MADE IN CHINA reflects on circulation, transformation, and the hybrid aesthetics of a contested border.

Ida Kammerloch, born in 1991 in Izhevsk, Russia, is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. In 2024, she completed her studies in TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, following previous studies at the Rodchenko Art School in Moscow (2018) and the University of Fine Arts Saarbrücken (2017).

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IZDELANO NA KITAJSKEM je trikanalna video instalacija, posneta v Manzhouliju, kitajskem obmejnem mestu ob 4200 kilometrov dolgi meji med Kitajsko in Rusijo. Manzhouli, glavni prehod na »novi svileni poti«, je ključna trgovska lokacija med državama. V devetdesetih letih prejšnjega stoletja je umetničin dedek več kot triintridesetkrat potoval v to mesto kot trgovec, pogosto je potovanja tudi snemal. Trideset let kasneje se umetnica vrne v radikalno spremenjeno mesto; sedaj je to nadrealistična pokrajina prekomerno velikih Matrjošk, mamutov iz steklenih vlaken in ruskih replik. Umetnica se sprehaja skozi hotelske avle, tržnice in prazne trge ter sledi ostankom preteklih izmenjav. V delu, kjer spaja najdene posnetke, posnetke s kraja samega in večplastne naracije, razmišlja o cirkulaciji, transformaciji in hibridni estetiki meje.

Ida Kammerloch, rojena leta 1991 v Iževsku v Rusiji, je vizualna umetnica in filmska ustvarjalka, ki živi na Dunaju. Leta 2024 je – po predhodnem študiju na Umetniški šoli Rodčenko v Moskvi (2018) in Univerzi za likovno umetnost v Saarbrücknu (2017) – zaključila študij TransArts na Univerzi uporabnih umetnosti na Dunaju.