Ronghui Chen: Land Of Ambition
Ronghui Chen was born in Lishui, Zhejiang Province. His photographic vision has followed his footsteps from counties to cities, lingering in metropolises, and reaching decaying regions, and that completes a full circle about certain ambition. This ambition at stake, silent but immense, perhaps relevant to 鈥渄evelopment鈥�, casts a broad shadow on the land that is called China. Etymologically, photography is the writing with light, and in this shadowy obscurity, Ronghui Chen's lens turns to subtle and neglected symptoms of ambition: polluted rivers, abandoned hometowns, one amusement park after another, grandiose shanzhai architectures, shrinking cities, melting ice, wildfire, weary youngsters...
The solo exhibition "Land of Ambition" mainly presents three series of works by Ronghui Chen. Petrochemical China captures rural landscapes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang invaded by industrial ruins and urbanization. For most city dwellers, those places are just scenery passing in a flash on high-speed trains. Ambition is accelerating. In the project Modern Shanghai & Runaway World, the artist juxtaposes flamboyant amusement facilities and man-made spectacles with indoor portraits of urban youths. Various visual and conceptual perspectives, exteriority and interiority still and moving, social and human, intercontextualize within the frames.
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Ronghui Chen was born in Lishui, Zhejiang Province. His photographic vision has followed his footsteps from counties to cities, lingering in metropolises, and reaching decaying regions, and that completes a full circle about certain ambition. This ambition at stake, silent but immense, perhaps relevant to 鈥渄evelopment鈥�, casts a broad shadow on the land that is called China. Etymologically, photography is the writing with light, and in this shadowy obscurity, Ronghui Chen's lens turns to subtle and neglected symptoms of ambition: polluted rivers, abandoned hometowns, one amusement park after another, grandiose shanzhai architectures, shrinking cities, melting ice, wildfire, weary youngsters...
The solo exhibition "Land of Ambition" mainly presents three series of works by Ronghui Chen. Petrochemical China captures rural landscapes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang invaded by industrial ruins and urbanization. For most city dwellers, those places are just scenery passing in a flash on high-speed trains. Ambition is accelerating. In the project Modern Shanghai & Runaway World, the artist juxtaposes flamboyant amusement facilities and man-made spectacles with indoor portraits of urban youths. Various visual and conceptual perspectives, exteriority and interiority still and moving, social and human, intercontextualize within the frames.
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