Look Photo Biennial

Dinu Li, Anatomy of Place

17.10.19 - 21.12.19, Birkenhead Market, in collaboration with Open Eye Gallery

"The Anatomy of Place brings together a body of work by Dinu Li spanning over a decade. Li spins a dialogue over three spaces, opening a space to consider interlacing histories, memories and the essence of place. Spread across three units, Li weaves together Super 8mm, video, photography, animation, performance, found images, personal archives and a newly created sculptural assemblage. The film series and accompanying environments look at how knowledge, rituals and ideologies move between places.

Born in Hong Kong, Li was raised in a neighbourhood internationally recognised for its bustling street markets. Li has restaged The Anatomy of Place work in acknowledgment of Birkenhead Market, a former focal point of Merseyside’s commerce."

What is Look Photo Biennial:

“Worldwide, many countries are reinforcing their borders and turning increasingly inwards, but a collective international awareness is also on the rise. Global issues must be tackled from a sense of global belonging; this edition of LOOK Photo Biennial seeks to encourage this belonging. As a medium, photography is equipped for this: images are shareable, accessible and can transcend borders, languages and cultures.

The transferability of images today allows new perspectives to be efficiently communicated across languages, borders and cultures. Through LOOK, emerging and established artists communicate the issues of the present, and exercise photography’s role in shaping the future.

Unfolding across Liverpool, Wirral, Preston and Shanghai, LOOK Photo Biennial 2019 builds upon Open Eye Gallery’s international exchange with China. The programme sets out to use photography to bring different cultures into conversation and reflect on shifting national identities, worldwide environmental issues and how we can communicate effectively. LOOK Photo Biennial 2019 has been an ongoing project for two years. Earlier this year, we presented Chapter One: TRANSPLANT. It now culminates in Chapter two: TRANSLATE/ TRANSITION, with exhibitions across Liverpool, The Wirral and Shanghai.

LOOK is delivered by Open Eye Gallery. Every two years, we work with a different partner country to build a programme that exchanges culture and learning, worldwide.”

https://fastforward.photography/look-photo-biennial-2019/

https://openeye.org.uk/whatson/peer-to-peer/