Guangzhou

2023

Cantonese Opera is a traditional Chinese national theatre born in Guangdong and based on the local culture and traditional dialect, Cantonese. Influenced by the strong culture of Guangdong, my hometown, I chose to use Cantonese Opera as the main component of this project.

Cantonese Rhyme Chapter is an experimental project that explored the collision between photography and theatre art, as well as photography as a medium to dismantle and reorganise the resulting hybrid work. I initially found that the rhythm of theatre is quite prominent, therefore I use this as a starting point, experimentally using different photographic techniques to merge and contrast photography and theatre art, so that the rhythms clash and match, thus the dramatic effect is given to the photographs, which are originally only visual effects.