How to Become a Magical Girl: 少·法·魔·女 is the investigation and speculation into the question titled and is based on the adoration of pop culture icon - the magical girl.

Viewers follow the subject through identity construction and desire to explore myths and performances of knowledge, femininity, and contemporary spirituality. It touches upon being influenced by capitalism and various systems of ideologies, beliefs, languages and cultures, which creates an increasingly blurring realm of truth, reality and illusion that circulates in communication technologies, mediated by symbols and images and in consumption habits.

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Magic is seen as a power and form of enchantment withholding the influence and question of reality, but also histories of social composition. It holds the potential to re-arrange structured meaning, putting them in dialectic and contradiction within itself, where poetics and rhetorics of reason begin sharing the same quality as the supernatural.

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Angela Pan is a Chinese-New Zealander artist born in 2001, Tāmaki Makaurau. Her interdisciplinary practice includes film, animation, game design, sculpture, installation, print, and painting. She has recently completed a Master of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts.

Pan fragments representations and understandings into recursive and imaginative spaces to generate epistemological slippages. She takes inspiration from areas such as subjective experience, globalisation, religion, magic, biology, and popular culture. Pan’s works at times search for socio-cultural conditioning, intersectionality, personal mythologies, and bodies and entities enticed with being and becoming. How to Become a Magical Girl: 少·法·魔·女 is their first solo show.

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