This book is a selection of Wang Yishu’s latest works from 2016-2017. Different from his early works, Wang’s source of inspirations shifts from human beings to objects, from complexity to delightfulness. More of his new works accumulate and reinforce these transitions into an intense impression. These photographs resemble the cavities on the surface of reality, which is filled with the look of the actual world that is rather independent. In those new photographs, Wang Yishu no longer constructs complex metaphors, instead, a sudden enlightenment towards light, color and shadow. In some settings or moments, Wang uses strobe lights to sculpt or dissect the lighting environment of the space. He produces shadows to disturb the world in the photographs.

About the artist: Wang Yishu

Wang Yishu, born in the 1970s in Ganshu, grew up in Jinzhou, Liaoning. He graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Northwest Normal University. Now he works and lives in Zhejiang and Shanghai. Some of his works were collected in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

王軼庶2016-2017年的作品。與他早期作品頗為不同，新近拍攝的作品預示了某些變化正在發生：對空間中的色彩關係、結構與紋理的高度敏感正不斷地參與進來，以往聚焦在人物身上的敏銳觀察正在向角落裡擴散。他的靈感正漸漸地從人向物轉移，從復雜向愉悅轉移。更多的新照片正在使這些變化逐漸成為一種強烈的印象，那些照片就像是一個個被打開了的現實的缺口，裡面盛滿了現實世界被叫停之後所呈現出的獨立的樣貌。在那些新的照片裡，王軼庶不再像過去那樣建構複雜的隱喻，它們看上去更像是對光線、對色彩、對陰影的一種頓悟。某些場景、某些時刻，王軼庶使用閃光燈對空間和光線進行鑿刻和切割，他會人為地製造出影子去影響照片中的世界。

關於藝術家：王軼庶

生於1970 年代，畢業於西北師範大學中文系，曾為媒體工作者。作為攝影師，在中國藝術攝影領域深耕超過15 年。2007 年其作品在舊金山現代藝術博物館展出並收藏; 2010 年度瑪格南圖片社基金獲得者;有收藏家認為他是為數極少的具有天賦的攝影師;曾在中間美術館、CIPA 畫廊、C14 等空間舉辦展覽。