honorable mention
Sine Zheng united kingdom
title
Wild Dwelling
Sufficient resources from the earth are available easily by the urban experience. The influence of every small and instant behavior in our life continuously evolves our earth to an unexpected stage. Based on my observation, the ecological collapse happens not only in the wild that forests change to deserts, glaciers thaw, or elsewhere that are distant from our daily life. On the contrary, the thawing of each piece of ice, the death of each plant, each used napkin tissue, and the wastage of each drop of water...they all accumulated are altering the earth we rely on survival.
In this project, I merge the indoor objects and nature to search the balance between ecology and urban life. My project is also devoted to exploring the frame of environment we desire through the blurred boundary between environment and human. The perspective that I want to share with the viewer is a concern for the ecosystem and to value every moment and place we are surrounded with.
For Sine, darkroom process reappears time and space through lightness and darkness, which arouses a hidden consciousness and guides the viewer to experience it again. Besides pressing the shutter, she also fuses her ideas with the printing process in a creative way, using ice, glass, sand, salt and etc as mediums to convey an unlimited range of perspective. Following the development of urbanization, people gradually get lost in the steel human made architectures, taking resources such as water, wood and electricity from earth for granted to expand the city ambitiously. Giving a reason to perceive a ‘better life’, people even try to build a fake vision of nature in our cityscape, making an illusion in which people perceive a simulative environmental image. As a contemporary artist, Sine wants to share with the viewer the possible threats for the ecosystem and at the same time invite the audience to value every moment and place we are surrounded with.
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entry description
With the development of urbanization, people gradually get lost in the dazzling steel forest. Surrounded human-made objects create an obscured appearance in which people are easily losing sight of the boundary between reality and illusion. We feel at ease in modern life with sufficient resources and even try to build a fake vision of nature in our city life, making an illusion in which people perceive a simulative environmental image.Sufficient resources from the earth are available easily by the urban experience. The influence of every small and instant behavior in our life continuously evolves our earth to an unexpected stage. Based on my observation, the ecological collapse happens not only in the wild that forests change to deserts, glaciers thaw, or elsewhere that are distant from our daily life. On the contrary, the thawing of each piece of ice, the death of each plant, each used napkin tissue, and the wastage of each drop of water...they all accumulated are altering the earth we rely on survival.
In this project, I merge the indoor objects and nature to search the balance between ecology and urban life. My project is also devoted to exploring the frame of environment we desire through the blurred boundary between environment and human. The perspective that I want to share with the viewer is a concern for the ecosystem and to value every moment and place we are surrounded with.
about the photographer
Sine Zheng is a photographer based in London. She completed a master’s degree in photography at the Royal College of Arts. Her works explore the connection between people, nature, urban life and space, which generates a suspension between reality and illusion, and explores whether they can exist independently. Her photographs give no straight answer to her audience, which is instead prompted to have its own interpretation.For Sine, darkroom process reappears time and space through lightness and darkness, which arouses a hidden consciousness and guides the viewer to experience it again. Besides pressing the shutter, she also fuses her ideas with the printing process in a creative way, using ice, glass, sand, salt and etc as mediums to convey an unlimited range of perspective. Following the development of urbanization, people gradually get lost in the steel human made architectures, taking resources such as water, wood and electricity from earth for granted to expand the city ambitiously. Giving a reason to perceive a ‘better life’, people even try to build a fake vision of nature in our cityscape, making an illusion in which people perceive a simulative environmental image. As a contemporary artist, Sine wants to share with the viewer the possible threats for the ecosystem and at the same time invite the audience to value every moment and place we are surrounded with.
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