Samantha Cheng

Happy Ever After (2021)

4 minutes 17 secondsSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

Happy Ever After documents the artist’s efforts to run into the sunset one evening. Usually signalling a true and triumphant end to a storyline for a protagonist, creating this finale for oneself reveals the absurdity and futility of the act. With each awkward and clumsy attempt, we return to the question of what is really futile in the video: the act or trying?

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