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Mengna Da

Mengna Da is a freelance writer, amateur artist, and 24/7 sleepwalker based in Brooklyn. Her current interests involve moving image, surveillance, and politics behind what is (constructed to be) seen. With a day job as an artist's project manager, she also aspires to be an independent curator.

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A Darkly Comic Animated Film Set on China’s Urban-Rural Fringe

by Mengna Da January 26, 2018

Have a Nice Day is a stark, ruthless, and true-to-life movie about people living on the urban-rural fringe of China today.

A scene from The Shape of Water, featuring Doug Jones and Sally Hawkins (all images courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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In The Shape of Water, Small Acts of Rebellion Make a Splash

by Mengna Da December 13, 2017December 14, 2017

Guillermo del Toro’s latest film, about a mute cleaning woman who liberates and falls in love with a humanoid amphibian monster, is intimate in scale but tells a potent story of empowerment.

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The Many Arms of Takashi Murakami’s Career

by Mengna Da September 21, 2017

A retrospective at the MCA Chicago charts the many strands of Murakami’s painting practice, from his early Nihonga style to recent Buddhist iconography.

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Jordan Wolfson Evades the Politics of His Violent Images

by Mengna Da June 23, 2017June 24, 2017

At a screening of his work at the New Museum, the artist failed to acknowledge the privilege that lets him reduce violence to an aesthetic form.

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Surveying Landscapes for Clues to Political Violence

by Mengna Da April 14, 2017

Two films made almost 50 years apart use silent shots of landscapes to examine the conditions that drove two young people to criminality.

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