A romantic tale of the city

Xing Danwen is an active Chinese artist on the international scene. Her "Fictionalized history of the city" combines self-portraits and still lives to imagine a town history located in the process of urbanization. Photographing the architecture models at the points of sale, Xing Danwen then stages herself in all the situations of a city woman, before assembling the images by digital process. Work thus completed shows loneliness, the isolation and the alienation of the individual in modern life. It is a faithful image of urban reality, even if the author regards his work as a "walk between reality and fiction".