HERE THERE ARE MEN. Portrait(s) of China by Patrick Wack
A fashionable tourist girl against the muddy skyline of Chongqing, a Mao-loving Tibetan man on the trails of a sacred Buddhist pilgrimage, hipsters in Inner Mongolia – Shanghai-based French photographer Patrick Wack recounts everyday life amidst extreme cultural and environmental change in China.
Rural plains, eerie mountains and surreal, disassembled cityscapes provide the backdrop for his everyday men and women in brief moments of their daily lives. Photographing real people in real situations, yet endowing his characters with a stylized, timeless sheen, Patrick strips his subjects of their social roles and elevates them to heroic figures – they become archetypes, anonymous representatives of a common, general humanity. At the same time, his everyday faces reflect the marks that tumultuous Chinese history has left on the old and young, in the countryside and in China’s fast-growing metropolises, the urban epitomes of the “Chinese miracle”.
After exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai and Berlin, HERE THERE ARE MEN will be on display in Singapore for the first time.
An exhibition brought to you by MO-Industries, a POP-UP gallery project staging moments of cultural interchange between Asia and Berlin.
Exhibition Opening & MO-Launch Party: Saturday, 5 December 2015, 6pm
Exhibition Dates: 5 December 2015 – 13 February 2016
Venue: 67A Kim Yam Road, Singapore 239367
Opening Hours: Tue – Sat 12 to 8pm
When: 5 Dec 2015 - 7 Feb 2016,
By: MO Industries
