The Life Show and Other Stories

Chen Jiagang's theatrical panoramas play with the conventions of old postcards in order to twist the established codes of popular culture. A woman stands in a landscape of gigantic rusting machinery or sterile, decaying nature. She glances at us, inviting us to step with her into this world beyond time. This journey we take with her shows us the fragility of human desires, eternally caught between our utopias and the greatness of nature. A collection of beautiful images that journey beyond time around China.