Video: Forgotten cities in abandoned buildings. Unregistered City by Jiang Pengyi
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Chinese author Jiang pengyilike many of his other compatriots, he could not remain indifferent to the rapid changes that have swept China in recent years. The only thing is that the economic development and modernization of the Chinese society does not cause the author's enthusiasm. This is evidenced by a series of installations where Jiang Pengyi places models of miniature cities in abandoned and forgotten buildings.
In a series with the eloquent title "Unregistered City", the author explores the existing monuments of Chinese modernity - skyscrapers, high-rise apartments and the expressway network - but does so on a miniature scale. Jiang Pengyi leaves his models not just in abandoned buildings and empty rooms - they are certainly structures from the old era, belonging to the old days and forgotten today.
Jiang Pengyi emphasizes the uniformity of high-rise buildings that make the architectural landscapes of Chinese cities faceless and monotonous. We are accustomed to looking at skyscrapers from below, with our heads thrown up, and the author presents us with a directly opposite view of these structures. And then it turns out that they are not so easy to distinguish from fragments of bricks or other construction waste, among which they are located. Moreover, “Unregistered City” is much more than just dissatisfaction with the modern architecture of large Chinese cities. This is the opposition of the past and the future in the development of the country and the concern that rapid modernization and urbanization will destroy the foundations and traditions that have been formed over centuries.
Jiang Pengyi was born in 1977 in Yuanjiang City (Hunan Province). Graduated from the Beijing Institute of Art and Design in 1999, the author currently lives and works in Beijing, focusing on photography.
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