Crossover Photography：Time-space of Topology
Curator: Jin Youming
Artists: Zhang Yu, Li Dongliang, Yang Zheyi, Ouyang Shizhong, Tian Kai, Chen Ronghui, Wei Ziqi
Contemporary photographers try to express their ideas with architectural photography, like Andreas Gursky, Wolfgang Tillmans, Catherine Opie, Thomas Ruff, Hiroshi Sugimoto, etc.
Remains of some buildings make the perfect subjects for them to record the hidden world, and the social truth behind. The birth of skyscrapers is the record of the Great Depression, the emerging modernistic tradition in Africa and India in the Post-Colonist time, the impacts of industrialization to the Europe in 1960s, the increasingly suburbanized America and Europe, the consequences of the overwhelming urbanization in Middle East and South America. By seeing through the buildings, the artists created the lasting dialogues between photography and architecture.
The exhibition gathers together photographs reflecting some Chinese photographers’ observation on the developments and changes of buildings, demonstrates the cooperation between globalization and urbanization, changes of natural landscape, reviews the internal relationship between symbolic icons and urban scenery, and reveals the significance of the availability of man-made resources in the nature. Like a challenger in the era, the exhibition, though still influenced by architects, power holders, states, societies, religions and cultures, tells the trend of deeply-rooted values, announces the relation between the redefinition of architecture with a city’s history, a nation’s culture, a society’s development and the changes of times. With different examples of buildings of different types, in different times and cities, it showcases and explores the role of architecture in social development in an understandable and identifiable manner. （Author／Jin Youming）
