While these may look like images from a new science fiction film, they're the strangely beautiful work of Chinese artist Yuan Keru.
She creates her art – in this case a four-screen video installation – by plotting out novels, setting up costumed scenes and getting the performers to semi-improvise scenes and conversations.
You can see her work, and those of other emerging Chinese video and digital artists, at the Auckland Art Fair in a container at the entrance to The Cloud on Auckland's Viaduct. The fair opens to the public on Thursday.
![Chinese artist Yuan Keru explores loss of belonging and spiritual thinking in Fleeting Strangers, part of China Import Direct.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/KSKYOFAS7V4C2ZPU72JCS7NTKI.jpg?auth=b7e1f4d5c660764653f2d1a618cfe987397715ae5c54f981a0d92868c6e73a95&width=16&height=10&quality=70&smart=true)
Shanghai-based Keru's work Fleeting Strangers is part of the China Import Direct exhibition, a showcase of 10 of the country's best video and digital artists of the past decade.