LILI, LILI

Norms don’t necessarily originate from where one would expect. We know about the so-called “China Girls”, these “Eurasian” women who were used by the film industry for the chromatic calibration of films, as genuine human colour charters. Exploiting archives and various materials, An Van Dienderen unravels the threads of politics, technique and aesthetics, to show how unspoken colonial representations contribute to the making of norms. (NF)