Chi-Wen at Tokyo Gendai 2026
Tane ‘Seed’ sector (T03)
FAMEME, Fancy Fantasy! Music Video, 4’31”, 2024
Courtesy of the artist and Chi-Wen x MOV Collection
The central figure that hosts Fancy Fantasy! Club is FAMEME, an influencer, singer and a business person who founded the Durian Museum to promote his family’s durian farming business, now venturing into the product development of durian perfume.
The music video Fancy Fantasy! (2024, music composed by Yuka O., lyrics by Maki Tezuka, video by Mateusu Katayama), inspired by Boy’s Love cliches, dramatizes the same-sex exuberance that emerges from a host club encounter. Along the paradoxical and memorable phrase of the song—“I am good at making the beginning of the end”—a young salaryman awkwardly enters the club to find his female friends celebrating the birthday who are being entertained by the club’s the No. 1 host. As a trained entertainer, the host warmly welcomes the man to gradually shed his emotional armour. The champagne call, a contemporary ritual of temporal social bonding, intensifies the incidental moment of love. The lights cast an enticing glow over their bodies, swaying to a seductive mix of bass and electrifying beats.
In Fancy Fantasy!, market-oriented pseudo-romance is manoeuvred by queering relationship norms, while multiple layers of reality and fiction channel energy and desire that defy divisive gender categories.
FAMEME
Born in 1983 in Penang and based in Taipei, FAMEME is an artist, designer, and singer. A descendant of a durian-farming family, he also operates as an entrepreneur, critically engaging with influencer culture, Western social media ecosystems, and celebrity-driven cultural production. Positioning himself as a self-stylized “crazy rich Asian”, FAMEME reclaims and recontextualizes durian—the “king of fruits”, known for its powerful scent—as both a personal and cultural symbol. Through this motif, he explores diasporic and queer identity while developing cross-disciplinary works that span art, fashion, music, and media.
FAMEME’s art practice moves fluidly between East and West, with presentations at international platforms including the Performa Biennial and the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions. His work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, among others.
About Chi-Wen Gallery
Founded in 2004 in Taipei, Chi‑Wen Gallery specializes in film and video and champions contemporary Taiwanese art. The gallery supports the production and distribution of video and new‑media work while exploring critical questions raised by emerging technologies.
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