The Vanishing Portraits, Yun-Yue Dong Western-style Building, Kinmen the Van

作品賞析

LIU Yun-Yi’s The Vanishing Portraits, Yun-Yue Dong Western-style Building, Kinmen; The Vanishing City, Ching-Chi Chen Western-style Building, Kinmen compares two perspective photographs at different times. These photographs were subject to post-processing and then assembled to provide a portrait of the building and the effects of time. Kinmen’s western baroque buildings represent local cultures. Many Overseas Chinese traders were inspired by British and French architectures they had seen in Southeast Asian colonies and brought them home to Kinmen, commissioning these western-style buildings to local architects who designed them to demonstrate their elevated social standing. LIU Yun-Yi used the photographs to highlight memorial-like architectural forms in the region, converting them into images that restored the values of these edifices to remind people of their historical achievements and forgotten urban memories.