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Jiang Peng-Yi is a Beijing-based photographer.
Jiang Peng-Yi, All Back to Dust, 2007. C-Print Photography. Size A: 240 x 180 cm, Edition: 6. Size B: 120 x 90 cm, Edition: 8.The city is a place where buildings furiously propagate. In China, it is almost like a carnival. All kinds of unthinkable new buildings gather from all over the world, to compensate the desires of a newly rising powerful country, to satisfy a thirst for marvelous spectacles. The spectacle of these buildings is a holy miracle, and what these offices require is the unconditional acceptance of the spectator, and to acquire people’s obeisance through sighs and admiration.
I’ve combined these buildings from various places with other forms, dragging them out from their aesthetics, so that they lose their perfect, grand, spectacular, and exciting attraction, through which they seduce and hypnotize. They seem a lot smaller, and are paid a lot less attention. It is a lot more enjoyable to look at them like this.
A part of the Buddhist text can best express my idea: the grand objects outside are composed of countless microscopic particles. In fact, they are all just piles of dusts.
