FORM OF LIGHT - WANG NINGDE
Artist Reception Sept 5, 6-8PM
5 Sept - 31 Oct 2014

M97 Gallery is pleased to present “FORM OF LIGHT”, an exhibition of new large-format, three-dimensional photographs by artist WANG Ningde.

Since graduating from the Luxun Fine Arts Academy, Wang Ningde’s artistic practice has consistently set out to explore the core fundamental elements of photography: light, paper, materials, image and the nature of “writing with light”. In FORM OF LIGHT Wang Ningde goes a step further to deconstruct the original image form and representation to later reconstruct it for the viewer as an abstract and inverted photographic mirage.

“These works are works about photography, not photographic works with the purpose to express something.”
“The following words provide clues to interpreting my works: reality and illusion; light and shadow; horizontal and vertical; fragmented and whole; solid and empty; with and without… - WANG NINGDE

Wang Ningde started working on the Form of Light series 2 years ago, following his own intellectual curiosity about language and about photography as a means of expression. With the purpose of distilling the essence of the image, Wang Ningde employs photographs of simple images (trees, clouds, a dog) to then subject their paper representation to a meticulous process of measuring, cutting and installing in order to filter and project said image through light and shadow.