Faculty of Art
Photography
Jingwen Cao
not today, not tomorrow
Photography
2020
film photography, inkjet print
Multiple sizes
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, nothing is necessary.
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]