Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

Born in Huan in 1977, Jiang Pengyi was discovered at the Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2007. With his Two series "All Back to Dust" and "Luminant", he is showing a dreadful for the skycrapers. In "Luminant", skycrapers are the new landmarks in our modern cities. Taken with a large format camera using long exposure times and framed in light boxes to accentuate their brightness, Jiang Pengyi's overexposed buildings seem to warm the viewers about the power of manipulation they carry out. In those multilayered and anonymous metropolises, they embody the frghtening reflect of "the Society of Spectacle". Contrarily, in "All Back to dust", the skyscrapers, these a priori invincible towers appear obsolete. Reduced, put upside down, mixed with plastic bags and rubish, the buildings appear a lot less spectacular. As any construction involves destruction, Jiang Pengyi's skyscrapers already appear as relics of an old world, garbage in a new era, where nature has reclaimed its rights.