Jiang Pengyi, b.1977, China
As a Chinese artists belonging to a generation raised on classic iconography and still strongly being rooted in traditional culture, the photography of Jiang Pengyi deals with how the rapid growth of modern architecture crowds out and destroys all older architectural elements and with its the traces of a lost past.

Jiang left his birth-place of Yuan Jiang, a small city in Hunan province as a teenager, and his first experience of the big city was a culture shock. As a professional photographer capturing the city scapes of Beijing, Chinese urbanism, with its innumerable futuristic skyscrapers, is a major theme of his artwork. As Jiang said, “The city is place where buildings furiously propagate. In China, it is almost like a carnival. All kinds of unthinkable new buildings gather from all over the world to compensate the desire of a newly rising powerful country , and to satisfy a thirst for marvelous spectacles. The marvelous spectacle of these buildings is a holy miracle, and what these office require is the unconditional acceptance of the spectators, and to acquire people’s obeisance through signs and admiration.”.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009　I mmersion and Distance, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2008　Paris-Beijing photo gallery, Beijing

Selected Group Exhibitions
2011　Be Natural Be Yourself, Frac des Pays de la Loire Fonds régional d'art contemporain, Nante, France
　　　Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art – Moving Image in China (1988-2011) , Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
　　　Daybreak, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China