In her first major solo exhibition in China, the Berlin based artist Elke Marhöfer will introduce primarily new works specially conceived for the exhibition. The main room of the FCAC she will install a number of sculptural formations, or pavilions. Within the pavilions, four filmic projects will be presented. Based on this constellation, the individual films will sensually interweave with the "white cube", and generate an ambivalent space, which embraces a number of different impulses. The filmic works in the exhibition meditate on the artistic procedures inherited from documentary and ethnographic film. They re-think how we form the world, history, ourselves and others. But the objective is not to report, in example, on globalization, or the matters of different cultures, but to explore ones own conditions of production within the new global  conditions. The works share the event, that there is no "other" world, but that every identity is in conjunction with other identities, and through this will be expanded and changed. The title of the exhibition immigration humans plants animals ghosts (late afternoon confusion) re-calls and in the same time disbelieves in the concept of species and artificial genus. The generalizing quantities "humans", "plants", "animals" imply as if life, while created, would already be determind by certain types. But humans plants and animals are encircled and infused by immigration and ghosts, both immaterial fluctuations. The aphorism (late afternoon confusion) discribes an everyday state of mind, a tiny mental disorder, a slow flow, when the consciousness and the conceptual thinking withdraw themselves, and some other form of knowledge enters. This is what the exhibition ought to stimulate, an experimental experience, that challenges the production of knowledge.

Curator: Li Xiaofei
Designer: Guo Qingling
Organizer: Fei Contemporary Art Center
Partner: Goethe Institute Shanghai
Special thanks to: Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department, Shanghai Creative Star