Yan Wang Preston: Forest
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In 2013, during a long-term photography project along the Yangtze river, Yan Wang Preston (*1976) made an incisive observation: in the small village of Xialiu stood an over three-hundred-year-old tree in all of its glory, right in the center of a community that was, at the time of Yan's visit, being coerced into moving so that a dam could be built in that location. Three months later, no trace of the village or the tree could be seen.
The residents had moved up the mountain. And the seventy-ton tree? It was sold for ten thousand American dollars to a hotel in the nearest large city, Binchuan. Yan found the tree, divested of all its branches and leaves and bandaged in plastic, inside the skeleton of the hotel, which was still under construction-like a living sculpture that has yet to become cognizant of its new surroundings.
In China, the country where cities are springing up, transplanting nature is big business. In the photo series Forest Preston tracks down many uprooted creatures that are now in concrete deserts, once again questioning our sense of the meaning of homeland.
Author/Artist/Designer
Yan Wang Preston (photogrpahy) Zelda Cheatle & Nadine Barth (text)Pages
128
Dimensions
30.9cm x 26.6cm
ISBN
9783775743754
Product code
166004
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