The Strangers

The Stranger Project is a long-term photographic project. Through archival photography of several camps where labor immigrants live in North Asia. Zhang re-organized the labor immigrants’ objects to construct some anti-utopia scenes about the disordered flow of labor migration. There are no characters shown in his pictures, but the objects’ context revealed the individual’s forgotten memories in the immigrants’ wave. Zhang also explores the hiding connection between individuals’ history and memories with the urbanization process in North Asia.

他者项目是一个长期摄影调查项目。艺术家通过对东北亚地区几个劳务移民所居住的营地进行档案式的摄影记录,对劳工移民的物品进行了重组,从而、构建了一个关于劳工移民中失序与流动的景观,由物品所重组出的空间再度勾画出了在移民浪潮中,个体的失忆与记忆,也探讨了在东北亚地区城市化进程中个人历史和记忆之间的隐藏联系。