Interior Fujian
Patrizia Bonanzinga
Press Article

Interior Fujian is a solo exhibition of the photography works by Italian artist Patrizia Bonanzinga. The photographer has been working in China since 1995. In 2004 she published The Road to Coal a photographic work on Chinese coal industry. Over the last years her central thread is about “time”. Interior Fujian is a series from her last trip to China in May 2010. Using her XPAN camera she went into the Tulou, huge round fortified houses of Hakka people, shooting interior landscapes. Seizing pithy, straightforward, human images, she wonders about her perception of the flow of time. Inside the Tulou, China seems timeless.
Lately, China is living a frenetic race to make up for lost time. The realistic images scattered by the XPAN capture the real rhythm of time in the Tulou. On the other hand, today’s China prevents the natural flow of time. From the literature of the Tang dynasty to our days, nothing has changed in the dwelling mode of most of Chinese people. Only the Cultural Revolution of the 60’s could have moved the essential place of objects and people. The photographer has gone deep down to the soul of the country, chasing the sense of China from Shanxi to Fujian. As China moves on, traditions remain...
Patrizia Bonanzinga : www.patriziabonanzinga.com
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