An immersive digital exhibition honouring and celebrating China’s ancient Shu civilisation has just opened at the MGM Macau.
The exhibition, entitled Brilliant Stars, promises to be an “immersive digital art experience,” according to the organisers, using modern technology to bring this Bronze Age culture to life. Taking place at MGM’s new multi-purpose venue Fantasy Box, the show uses three ultra-high-definition LED screens with a total area of approximately 500 square meters to immerse visitors into the lives and customs of China’s ancient Shu ancestors.
These digital narratives of this unique civilisation’s living environments and activities are based on ground-breaking archaeological findings from the 20th century onwards from the Sanxingdui and Jinsha archaeological sites in the Sichuan region. The Sanxingdui settlement was thought to have been abandoned around 1000 BC and lost to time until recently.
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In his remarks at the opening ceremony, Wu Zhiliang, the chairman of administrative committee of the Macao Foundation, emphasised the incredible importance of the Shu civilisation to Chinese history, and explained how the use of modern technology to tell their stories is a way to honour and ‘[create] new vitality into ancient legacies’.
Brilliant Stars is part of a collaborative programme between Hengqin and Macao. Between 2 February until 24 April, Hengqin hosted the exhibition Treasures of Ancient Shu – Sanxingdui and Jinsha, which showcased 163 pieces of cultural relics from six museums in the Sichuan region. Macao’s exhibition is a continuation of this dialogue between the present and the not-so-distant past.
The exhibition is free and will be on display at MGM Macau until 24 June.
