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The Concealed Landscape
2015
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LAI Yi-Chih
The Concealed Landscape
2015
photography
65×130cm
The Concealed Landscape
2015
photography
98×130cm
The Concealed Landscape
2015
photography
98×130cm
The Concealed Landscape
2015
photography
65×130cm
The Concealed Landscape
2015
photography
65×130cm
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The Concealed Landscape was photographed in the industrial cinder area of Kaohsiung, and the urban waste landscape of Taichung. The factories of heavy industry are mainly located in central-southern Taiwan. While the modernized industries massively produce, they, too, create massive industrial residues and waste, which, after being recycled and reused, are piled as small mountains, left in the city, harmlessly and illegally. The little mountains of waste have been left there without further disposal. Most people misunderstand that they are piles of ordinary sands and mounds. The negligible causes as such may conceal the power problem of bureaucracy, even concern the invisible power operations of interests. The industrial waste then becomes a concealed and unnoticeable landscape.

The Concealed Landscape overexposes the landscape as an indifferent visual metaphor. The waste land, overexposed and whitened, was made to see the almost visible, but not quite, via the image archives. The mound seen is not the mound itself, but the landscape of residues. The whitened image will maintain a fragile relation between landscape and reality, like a membrane, somewhat heavy and somewhat light, sometimes familiar and sometimes unfamiliar, akin to another parallel space.

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4 artworks / 41 exhibition
Photographic Art
The artist yi-chih LAI graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan. His photography work has long been dedicated to the environmental issues in the contemporary post-industrial society. The exhibit ...
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KEYWORDS
LAI Yi-Chih, 2007-2009, Photographic Art
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