Concluding Remarks: Spaces of Exhibition and Spaces of Human Practice

This chapter approaches Wang’s work from the perspective of exhibition spaces. It looks at how his career has evolved and partly transformed certain festival exhibition practices. It also discusses the virtuous circuit of Wang’s regular presence across film festivals and art exhibition spaces. Film festivals have served the essential function of providing a prestigious platform from which his work could first travel at a time in which their domestic visibility is not possible and theatrical release of art-house films or documentary films is limited in Europe like elsewhere. This concluding chapter also introduces the different modes of meaning-making of works exhibited at film festivals and art galleries.