Artwork Collection

A Cold Day

With a sense of meaninglessness in our everyday boredom, isolation, and neglect, my work strives to reconcile such sites through my photographs. By the end of a day, happiness and sadness are two sides of a coin, they are equally heavy. To express this theme, most of my work is looking at an idea that I have been very much drawn to, which is a state called the “neutral zone”- a place that’s in between.

photography human existence

Photography

not today, not tomorrow

My work looks at nihilistic existential solipsism through photography and poetry. I investigate sites of neglect throughout the city and consolidate fragmented and diasporic images to give meaning. With a sense of meaninglessness in our everyday... More

Photography

a cold day

My work looks at nihilistic existential solipsism through photography and poetry. I investigate sites of neglect throughout the city and consolidate fragmented and diasporic images to give meaning. With a sense of meaninglessness in our everyday... More

Photography

It was winter, but we didn’t feel cold at all

To you- If you want to be with me/ I have nothing/ I can only/ Give you my pillow

Work by

Jingwen Cao

Photography

“My practice focuses on the theme of existentialism. I investigate sites of neglect throughout the city and consolidate fragmented and diasporic images. As people move through life it seems like they...” [More]