Beijing Overshoot (WITH A SIGNED PRINT)

Claudia Jaguaribe
Beijing Overshoot (WITH A SIGNED PRINT)

Photographs: Claudia Jaguaribe

Text: Claudia Jaguaribe

Publisher: Editions Bessard

Year: 2017

Comments: Pink Hardcover, 255 x 225 mm. First edition, 2017. Edition limited to 500 copies with a signed c-print.

Beijing Overshoot is about the images, perceptions, and feelings I had in China that were and continue to be recurrent long after my trips ended in 2015 and 2016. I felt that China and in Beijing in particular condensed and amplified some important and pressing issues for me.

Many things seemed to be bordering the limit of their possibility. Such a constant transformation brought multiple changes in lifestyle. Pollution can be intense and it can profoundly affect everyday life and increase the complexity of living in a megacity. Nature becomes less and less present as ethereal technological imagery projected on huge screens is increasingly used.

Day and night are no longer easily distinguishable because pollution creates a veil that envelops the city and the intensity of artificial lights of differing origins and shapes brighten the night. The monumentality of the city and the constant change of the cityscape physically constrain and contain the hutongs and at the same time enhance their value.

This is the Beijing I experienced.”

- Claudia Jaguaribe