#experimental chinese art

Foresight(预见). Jiang Pengyi (蒋鹏奕). Photography. 2019.

Jiang Pengyi is an artist based in Beijing, China. Their work exists mostly in the mediums of video and photography, and aim to create “a kind of surreal spectacle and delicate narration of the scene…to reveal the barriers and confusions of the individuals”.  Their work has won accolades such as the Aletti ArtVerona Prize for Photography, the Jury Grand Price from the Société Générale Chinese Art Awards and the Tierney Fellowship Award.

Foresights is an exhibition of photographic experiments that Jiang has been working on since 2014. Key to Foresights is the concept of “demeditation”, which Jiang deals with in this work by trying to get rid of external limitations within his photography - including cameras, lenses, and shooting techniques as much as the subjective identity of the artist or subject. 

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