Untitled (Project Japan). Medium: Inkjet print on book pages.
This series are made possible by printer. I chose some of my architectural landscape paintings of Chinese urban architecture influenced by Japanese Metabolism, and printed them onto a selection of pages from the book "Project Japan: An Oral History of Metabolists" (which features the dialogues between architect Koolhaas, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, and members of Japanese Metabolism school, which is an important architectural thinking in Japan after WWII and also the first global architectural movement initiated in Asia). The idea for this set originated in my interest in the "stacked paintings" tactic often employed in Orson Welles's films, wherein two scenes overlap, slowly fading and emerging simultaneously. But in the process of doing so, comes about a new retrospective understanding, and thus I create a type of understanding of the past.
