Photographer No 223 stages solo in Beijing
Viewing the photos by artist Lin Zhipeng, all shot on film and characterized by bold, saturated colors and an atmospheric and poetic quality, is somewhat akin to listening to a fine dream pop album. Both may cause the audience to reminisce about their youthful days, pulsated with cheer, curiosity, confusion, melancholy, ennui and recklessness.
The artist's one-man show, Vision Infra-mince, is set to open tomorrow at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing, soon after its Xiamen space in East China's Fujian province wrapped up his exhibition Under the Sunlight, There is no True Intimacy last month.
Critically acclaimed for capturing the zeitgeist of the post-80s and 90s generation of non-mainstream Chinese youth, the avant-garde photographer, who also goes by the moniker No 223 (a nod to director Wong Kar Wai's Chungking Express), has been focusing his lens on close friends and acquaintances.
"No 223's photography often evokes imagery of youthful collectives or coming-of-age scenes, yet at its core is a persistent commitment to 'recording everyday landscapes' and 'gazing at relationships', sustained over more than two decades," commented renowned photographers RongRong & inri, co-founders of the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre.
"Through recurring depictions of bodies, gazes, personal objects, and gestures from daily life, his photographs quietly—yet intensely—capture the physical and emotional nuances of human relationships," they added.
