Video: Beware, Urbanization: The Original Social Photo Project by Yao Lu
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
With the help of the inevitable Photoshop, the photographer Yao Lu transforms images of Chinese landfills, covered with long strips of protective film, into majestic landscapes. And this is not only another variation on the theme "from what rubbish poetry grows", but also social criticism about the urbanization of the Celestial Empire.
Yao Liu's photocycle is called "New landscapes" (New landscapes) - although it would be more correct to call them a view from the unexpected side of the "well forgotten old". The photographer skillfully attaches traditional Chinese houses to unkempt garbage heaps, strolling animals that jumped straight from some medieval parable of travelers, and so on.
Each of the photographs included in the cycle New landscapes, attracts close spectator attention. Indeed, to unravel the "secret" of these photos, you need to spend some time: behind the elegant medieval houses and landscape atmosphere, the true nature of the "hills" and "paths" that Yao Liu captures does not immediately appear.
Unlike artists like El Anatsui and Zach Freemanwho use household waste as a material for their art objects, Yao Liu works with garbage not out of a desire for originality, but to convey a very specific message to their viewers. "New Landscapes" is not only a testament to the photographer's skill in Photoshop, but also a statement about the current state of Chinese society. The rapid urbanization of China is causing the discontent of many ordinary Chinese, and Yao Liu is definitely one of them. In "Landscapes" there is a noticeable nostalgia for traditional China - one-story houses and natural beauties that suffer under the pressure of megalopolises and modern skyscrapers. Yao Liu turns back the clock: from the garbage generated by modern cities, traditional landscapes grow, which the artist dreams of.
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