當代 塔可 詩山河考 攝影|Odes

Taca Sui

2014 · 108 silver gelatin prints mounted in 9 albums · Asian Art

For a year in his mid-twenties, the photographer Taca Sui dedicated himself to the study of China’s most ancient poetry collection, The Book of Odes (Shijing). Inspired by the poems, which have long been considered a window into early Chinese civilization, Sui took a series of photographs in northern China, in the regions eulogized in the Shijing, which he then arranged into albums. Sui’s photographs follow the suggestive, elliptical nature of the poems: the images seem to hover on a pregnant pause or a strange moment of coincidence. Sui draws in equal measure on modern artists’ books and Chinese albums, creating a new hybrid form of contemporary art.

Artist

Taca Sui

Date

2014

Medium

108 silver gelatin prints mounted in 9 albums

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2014