In the 1990s, a friend visited an isolated tribe in east Africa for investigation. The chief gave him a precious and beautiful accessory made of wolf teeth and animal bones. A decade later, he visited again, this time receiving a handiwork created from a Coca-Cola can, valuable for its rare emergence in this place.
People in different environments have different values, and such diversity can be confounding.
Illusion captures these cultural ‘misunderstandings’ and coincidences and arranges them as a series of fantastic, black-humorous works.
Gao Peng is an art photographer based in Beijing. Peng has exhibited nationally and internationally at world-renowned institutions and galleries. He has won or been acknowledged at the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards, the 2017 9th Three Shadows Photography Awards (TSPA), and the 2015 IPA CHINA, where he received the silver award for fine art.
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