Faculty of Art

Photography

Jingwen Cao

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 boredom, isolation, and neglect, my work strives to reconcile such sites through my photographs. I see polarizing, yet poetic silence in these images, where its expressionless and neutered facades demand to be heard. Like the attitude revealed in the poem, every day is a cold day.