Three Shadows Photography Art Center
30 Dec 2023 - 4 Feb 2024
Xiamen, China
The exhibition refers to a state of failure in expression and in interpretation. The title reflects a contradiction between the urge to document the world around us and the frustration of not being able to understanding its entirety. One of the interesting facts is that the Chinese and English versions of the title has slightly different meanings which also talks about the untranslatability and the unreliability in photography.
The sequence of the photos represent a road trip which pays homage to James Joyce’s Ulysses. The modernist novel parallels Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey. In stead of a journey of ten years, his protagonist spent a random day in one city wandering and found himself in loneliness and anxiety. In this case, the exhibition is a parodic representation of our relationships with the modern society and photography as well.
30 Dec 2023 - 4 Feb 2024
Xiamen, China
The exhibition refers to a state of failure in expression and in interpretation. The title reflects a contradiction between the urge to document the world around us and the frustration of not being able to understanding its entirety. One of the interesting facts is that the Chinese and English versions of the title has slightly different meanings which also talks about the untranslatability and the unreliability in photography.
The sequence of the photos represent a road trip which pays homage to James Joyce’s Ulysses. The modernist novel parallels Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey. In stead of a journey of ten years, his protagonist spent a random day in one city wandering and found himself in loneliness and anxiety. In this case, the exhibition is a parodic representation of our relationships with the modern society and photography as well.