剥开都市的浮华表层，作品描绘出上海一个独特的躯壳。我意识到每面墙、每片地和每个表面都留露着上海的历史沉淀及现实。每一处痕迹都渗透着它的故事。或者是墙上剥落的油漆、或者是慢慢生长的青苔、又或者是被粉刷过的涂鸦，都可能被混合一起制造出属于上海的纹理和景象。
这些作品通过捕捉“记号”而成，图像被复制而产生构图和形体。所得出的摄制作品看上去象一张张绘画，这种似是而非的效果让摄影和绘画这两种媒介产生有趣的对话。这些图片不只是拍摄绘画，它们本身就拥有着绘画的处理过程和本质。
所涌现的形体直接地表现出这城市及其所产生的能量。每件作品恰似一个城市的视觉烙印。
The exhibition draws an unusual portrait of Shanghai by peeling back its layers to reveal the city beyond its initiallyobvious impressions. I realised that on every wall, every pavement, and every surface lies the residue and reality of Shanghai. Every mark, every trace is a story left spilled. Whether it is the peeling paint of a weathered wall, the slow growth of moss or the splashes of paint over un-wanted graffiti. All combine together creating a landscape of images and textures that is Shanghai.
The works are created through the capturing of “a marking”. The images are multiplied, compositions emerge and forms are created. The result is a work that in many ways resembles a painting in appearance yet is in fact a photograph. It is this “blurring of the edges” between photography and painting that creates an interesting dialogue between the two mediums. The photographs are not just paintings that have been photographed and documented but rather they in themselves take on the quality and process of painting.
The forms that emerged exist as intuitive expressions of the city and the energy that it creates. Each work resemblesa visual imprint of the city.
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