Syncopation 错拍
Now / Elsewhere 当下 / 别处
Photography / Installation / Book
2020-2021
Growing up in rural China before migrating to immigrant cities, I became acutely aware of urban exclusivity and alienation. This experience drew me to explore the urban-rural interface of Chengdu—a unique buffer zone where city rationality meets rural wilderness, where rhythms fall out of sync yet create unexpected harmonies.
With a small Sony camera, I adopted a nomadic approach to document these borderlands. Here, traditional communities simultaneously resist and absorb urbanization through civilization's cracks, creating a syncopated rhythm of old and new. My lens captures isolated and mediated landscapes, seeking metaphors in the intersection of countryside, nature, capitalism, and time. Like musical syncopation that disrupts expected beats to create compelling patterns, these spaces generate their own irregular yet vital rhythms.
Each photograph frames a dialogue about mutual absorption between seemingly distinct realms: urban and rural, human and nature. The subjects become metaphors for those living in society's margins, where displacement and adaptation create complex counterpoints. Through photography, I attempt to document these offbeat moments, providing visual shelter for displaced lives caught in development's syncopated advance.
Yet questions persist: What future awaits these syncopated spaces? Will they be assimilated by urban governance, vanish in development's regular march, or transform into choreographed theme parks for city dwellers? These uncertainties reflect broader tensions in China's urbanization, where traditional lifeways negotiate with modernity's relentless tempo.
从农村走出，又辗转于苏州、成都这样的移民城市，我深刻体会到城市中的排他性与疏离。这段经历驱使我探索成都的城乡交界处——这个独特的缓冲地带，城市理性与乡村野性在此相遇，节奏错位却孕育出意想不到的和谐。
带着一台小型索尼相机，我以游牧者的姿态记录这片边界。在这里，传统社区既抵抗又吸收着城市化，通过文明的裂缝创造出新旧交织的错拍节奏。我的镜头捕捉那些孤立而中介性的风景，试图在乡村、自然、资本主义和时间的交错中寻找隐喻。如同音乐中的切分音打破预期节拍创造出迷人韵律，这些空间也在孕育着它们独特而富有生命力的不规则节奏。
每幅照片都框定了一场对话，关于城乡、人与自然之间的相互吸收。拍摄对象成为生活在社会边缘者的隐喻，他们在错位与适应中谱写复杂的对位。通过摄影，我试图记录这些偏离常规的时刻，为被发展浪潮错拍的生命提供视觉栖居。
然而疑问依然存在：这些错拍的空间将迎来怎样的未来？它们会被城市治理同化，消失在发展的步伐中，还是转变成为城市居民精心编排的主题公园？这些不确定性折射出中国城市化进程中的深层张力，传统生活方式在现代性的节奏中寻找着新的可能。
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