Olivier Pin-Fat - OUTSIDE THE WORLD
2006 Olivier Pin-Fat
Photographed in China at the end of 2006, this series is an attempt to make
meaning out of meaninglessness.
Feeling dislocated on a personal level, I found myself floundering in a
China of accelerated 'progress' - a cinematic science fiction where nothing
seemed to make sense. A landscape of abandoned tenements that appeared like
crashed prehistoric titans abandoned and forlorn in the rain, cities that
never ended, a labyrinth of unimaginable sky scrapers and power lines that
fed this 'monster' that China seemed to be becoming.
Reveling in this 'isolation' from my surroundings, myself and indeed
photography - I embarked on a solitary photo odyssey that bordered on the
neurotic.
Unable to communicate with anyone, I traveled through China's three
'Special Economic Zones' (Shenzen, Zuhai and Shantou) and instinctively
seemed drawn to the flip-side-decay of all this progress that is moving with such unfathomable speed – it’s almost virtual. Change that is so fast, nothing seems new. A driving electric motion accompanied with it’s residuum: isolation, dislocation, marginalization, decay and longing - a rampant consumerism and materialism that is primarily about surface, texture and after-glow. Puddles were spillages of blood, graphics and coding seemed everywhere,
telephone numbers painted on pavements and walls and then obliterated out
violently and made instantly invalid, instantly censored. Everything seemed
empty and lost in aesthetic.
Expiration date - one milli-second.
Dreams themselves seemed rubbed out.
Everything exhausted and burnt out as if time itself was too slow for this
stream of energy that seemed out-of-this-world.
China on the move. Outside the world.
available asking to the staff
Olivier Pin-Fat - OUTSIDE THE WORLD
2006 Olivier Pin-Fat
available asking to the staff