For him, photography is capable to reorganize and look through what we see in reality, to cause fantasies in the spectators who watch the images. The series New Landscapes includes pictures that are at the same time fictitious and real. The artist photographs mounds of garbage covered in green protective nets which he assembles and reworks by computer, to create bucolic landscapes, mist flooded mountains, inspired by traditional Chinese paintings. Between painting and photography, past and present, Yao Lu’s work speaks of the radical mutation affecting nature in China and the ecological threads that endanger the environment.

Born in 1967 in Beijing, Yao Lu is an emerging artist and teacher at the photography of department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. His work has been shown in numerous festivals and collective exhibitions around China (Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2007, New China Occidentalism - China Contemporary Art in Beijing in 2006, Pingyao International Photography Festival in 2004). But his work has rarely been shown in the West, except at the Fotofest International Houston in 2008, and at the Space and Transportation exhibition in Graz, Austria, in 1997. The winning work Landscape part I - Ancient Spring Time Fey, 2006 is part of a series of digitally manipulated images of landscapes.

Yao Lu (China, 1967)
New Landscapes

2009 Edition
Indoor exhibition
Venue: Market of Algorta
Collaborator: Traders of the Algorta Market