China
April–August 2020To reopen is to set bodies in motion again: buying, selling, queuing, passing through. Alongside these movements are occasions to stop, to gather, to remember.
Between markets, commercial interiors and public commemorations, ordinary life takes shape through gestures of exchange, direction and attention. Who may enter, where a body should stand, and which acts of remembrance can remain become questions of the same public space.
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06Forbidden City, Beijing ·
07Tiananmen Square, Beijing ·
08Tiananmen Square, Beijing ·
09Tiananmen Square, Beijing ·
A man placed photographs of Li Wenliang beside the stone plinth and began lighting a candle. His shadow falls across the foreground. The photographer witnessed him being taken away less than ten seconds after this photograph was made.
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