Discover New Asia Vol.3
Discover New Asia Vol.3 / Thomas Sauvin
アーカイブを通して、変化し続けるアジアの過去と現在を見つめる《Things Left Behind》は、トーマス・ソーヴィンによる長期的なプロジェクト《Beijing Silvermine》をもとに構成されています。2009年からソーヴィンは、中国で撮影された匿名の写真を収集。アーカイブ、フォトブック、展覧会などを通して、廃棄された日常の写真を読み替え、現代中国の集合的な視覚記憶として提示してきました。
Since 2009, French artist and archivist Thomas Sauvin has collected more than one million anonymous photographs, primarily in the form of 35mm negatives salvaged from a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing. These photographs, shot by everyday people in late 20th century China, document the aspirations, social rituals, and material culture of a rapidly changing society, and attest to the unique position of analogue photography in documenting modern life before the transition to digital. By recontextualizing these salvaged private records through photobooks, exhibitions, and installations, Sauvin’s artistic practice transforms fragments of everyday life into a collective visual memory, tracing the past and present of a rapidly changing Asia. Drawing from this archive, Things Left Behind is a special exhibition co-curated by Holly Roussell and KIM Jeong Eun, tracing the evolution of this artistic practice that has helped redefine contemporary approaches to found photography and the photobook as art.