Irene Kung的摄影展“中国梦”是她于2011年秋天环游中国一整月的成果。

她的作品所呈现的渐渐脱离的效果让建筑本身出离了本身的功能，让视觉与思索形成对话，其提供的空间让照片失去了客观性而转入了绘画所有的暗示的能力。艺术家的视角非常单纯地由她旅行的足迹而被线性连接了起来。于是我们便与她一起漫步这趟旅程，感受着隐居在事物形态之下的灵魂。她用这段旅行揭示了一座理想城，而不再是人们司空见惯的那一座，她赋予这些建筑以新的身份，将它们包裹于神话，并永存于时间。

所有作品都是她关于光线的探索，时明时暗，但它们总有一股神秘的能量，从黑白的建筑物或其他事物中穿透的力量。

Irene Kung生于瑞士，自小学习绘画。近年来，她将领域拓展到摄影方面并已获得国际范围认知。她的作品曾在比利时Bozar和意大利Capri的Certosa San Giacomo展出。并在许多国际性杂志上登载，如AD，星期日时代杂志和纽约时报杂志，并入选巴黎摄影2010国际评审团。

Irene Kung’s exhibition Dreams of China is the result of a month long trip across China that the artist took in the fall of 2011.

Her photographs are suspended evanescent visions extrapolated from their function and reaching an onyrical territory where gaze and thought are in conversation, spaces where photography loses its objective features and moves into the realm of the evocative capacity painting is known for. The point of view of the artist is transformed into a sequential plain able to line up only what is essential thus portraying the itinerary of a purely personal geography. In this way Irene Kung walks side by side with us in a silent Voyage autour de mon regard so as to reveal to us the soul of shapes inhabiting things and giving life to a journey through an ideal city which is dreamed rather than lived out – a new identity for places shrouded in myth and crystallized over time.

All the photographs share in common a research on light, now golden now dark, but always able through its mysterious energy to emerge distinctly from the monochrome background through its architectural or natural forms, as a mirage.

Irene Kung was born in Switzerland and trained as a painter. In recent years she expanded her repertoire to include photography and has achieved international recognition. She has recently exhibited at the Bozar in Belgium and in the spectacular surroundings of the Certosa San Giacomo in Capri, Italy. Her work has appeared in numerous international magazines such as AD, The Sunday Times Magazine and The New York Times Magazine and was selected by the international jury at ParisPhoto 2010.