Yizhou Wang汪奕舟
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In Each Other’s Image

Year
2025
Medium
Photography & installation

Project statement / English

In this project, I investigate the visual entanglement between artificial nature and human agency. By documenting staged environments, decorative greenery, and synthetic landscapes in urban spaces, I examine how “nature” has become a surface for projection—designed, consumed, and mediated under the logic of late capitalism.

Referencing Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra and Timothy Morton’s critique of ecological idealism, the work questions how natural imagery is emptied of its ecological function and reinserted into the cultural economy as aesthetic commodity. At the same time, posthumanist thought offers a framework to consider how humans and environments co-shape each other through intervention and adaptation.

By visually tracing moments where natural forms are modified, fabricated, or symbolically replaced, I explore the tension between ecological authenticity and human control. These images do not aim to recover a “pure” nature, but instead to highlight how every encounter with nature is already mediated—between intention and consequence, imitation and erosion.

項目介紹 / 中文

城市裡的自然，有時先以一種被安排好的樣子出現：被擺放的綠植、裝飾性的景觀，以及彷彿自然卻並非自然的環境。我記錄這些場景，也由此思考“自然”如何成為一塊可以投射想像的表面——它被設計、被消費，也經由圖像不斷呈現。

借助關於“擬像”的思考，以及對生態理想主義的質疑，我試著追問：當自然圖像失去原有的生態功能，它又如何以審美商品的形式，重新進入文化生活？人與環境之間也並非彼此分開；我們對環境的介入，與環境對人的塑造，始終同時發生。

有些自然形態被修改、製造，或由其他事物象徵性地替代。沿著這些痕跡，我看到生態真實與人的控制彼此拉扯。作品並不試圖找回一種“純粹”的自然，而是想承認：每一次與自然相遇，都已經隔著某種中介。意圖與後果、模仿與消蝕，也因此並置在同一個畫面裡。

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