Danwen Xing
The architectural structures that Danwen Xing photographed are all maquettes made to promote real-estate developments that are being planned in China today. This entire body of work is playful and fictitious, wandering between reality and fantasy. Al the figures in the series are images of the artist, playing different characters. The figures act out of totally imaginative roles as part of different plots and in different spaces. Together the resulting pictures compose the episodes of the urban fiction.
These images represent the state of urban life today. In our childhood, skyscrapers were buildings that we had to raise our head to look at. Now we can imagine our future by bending down to examine tiny models of buildings. This, perhaps, is another image of modern life.