Photographer No 223 levels solo in Beijing

Viewing the pictures by artist Lin Zhipeng, all shot on movie and characterised by daring, saturated colours and an atmospheric and poetic high quality, is considerably akin to listening to a high-quality dream pop album. Both might trigger the viewers to reminisce about their youthful days, pulsated with cheer, curiosity, confusion, melancholy, ennui and recklessness.

The artist”s one-man present, Vision Infra-mince, is ready to open tomorrow on the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing, quickly after its Xiamen area in East China’s Fujian province wrapped up his exhibition Under the Sunlight, There isn’t any True Intimacy final month.

Critically acclaimed for capturing the zeitgeist of the post-80s and 90s technology of non-mainstream Chinese youth, the avant-garde photographer, who additionally goes by the moniker No 223 (a nod to director Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express), has been focusing his lens on shut buddies and acquaintances.

“No 223’s photography often evokes imagery of youthful collectives or coming-of-age scenes, yet at its core is a persistent commitment to ‘recording everyday landscapes’ and ‘gazing at relationships’, sustained over more than two decades,” commented famend photographers RongRong & inri, co-founders of the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre.

“Through recurring depictions of bodies, gazes, personal objects, and gestures from daily life, his photographs quietly—yet intensely—capture the physical and emotional nuances of human relationships,” they added.