751
751 explores the architecture of native Beijing, specifically the 751 Gasworks, to examine the building’s complex history. They were significant industrial projects built with Soviet aid in the early 1950s and designed and constructed by East Germany. They have undergone numerous ups and downs over the decades. Through 751, it built a path in architecture and even history. I also use photography to explore architecture's materiality, break the structure of the original building, and express the history of its forbidden nature. The original files were accidentally damaged in the hard drive, revealing the color and texture of film damage, which broke the medium of the digital photography and the structure of the original building. But, simultaneously, it allowed me to recreate in the form of film negatives later.
I feed the architecture as film negatives on the film reel to express the building are preserved at the same location/place after years and years like film negatives would keep the same condition after decades.
The way I folds the architecture to create the feeling of forbidding more than usual, especially after the factory was withdrawn from production in 2003, which made me feel the alienation of all things in the world and the loneliness.
