END OF LINE: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF SILENCE, by Héctor Peinador

This worl shows for the first time "End of Line: An Archaeology of Silence", the photographic work by Héctor Peinador. Peinador, who lives and works as an architect in Beijing, has witnessed this city’s processes of construction and destruction throughout the last decade.

However, this experience is merely the background against which he conducted, over the past two years, this unique photographic research about the ends of the Beijing metro lines. Curated by independent curator Susana Sanz, who is Lecturer on Spanish Contemporary Art History and Photography at CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing).

End of Line: An Archaeology of Silence. Photography © Héctor Peinador.

END OF LINE: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF SILENCE.

This work is a journey that leads us through the veins of the ruined “body” that is Beijing — a trip from the heart of this twenty-first-century phantasmagorical capital to its outskirts, and the very extremities of its metro system.

The periphery of Beijing is the broken line that Héctor Peinador traces as he explores its superimposed strata and ruined remains. It is the metaphorical silence of this scenery, mute and void of any footprints, where the noise from the construction and destruction is strongest. It is the starting point from which mil- lions of Chinese citizens commute to work downtown, and where they ultimately survive.

In the periphery are borders, born from the encounter of different urban fabrics and textures, that hide from us the places we cannot see — the places no one ever shows us. But as the photographer's lens excavates the palimpsest of Beijing, the spectator's gaze follows it through this archaeology of silence.

Text.- Susana Sanz curator.

Organizer.- Meridian Space, The ICO Foundation.
Designers.- Meridian Space, Héctor Peinador, Susana Sanz.
Curator.- Susana Sanz.

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End of Line: An Archaeology of Silence. Photography © Héctor Peinador.io. Fotografía © Héctor Peinador.

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HÉCTOR PEINADOR

Hector Peinador, (Spain) obtained his Master Degree in Architecture at E.T.S.A.M., Madrid Polytechnic University [U.P.M.], and studied two years at Peking University [北京大学], China with an ICO Foundation Scholarship.

He works internationally as a Project based photographer, and has published his work in magazines such as Arquitectura Viva and Europaconcorsi. He was in charge of the photographic work of the book “A map of Hutopolis” about the Chinese urbanization process. His first solo exhibition “End of Line: An archaeology of silence” was presented at the 2014 Beijing Design Week; curated by Susana Sanz, and sponsored by the ICO Foundation with the collaboration of the Spanish Embassy in China.

He lives in China since 2009

SUSANA SANZ GIMÉNEZ

Susana Sanz Giménez, curator of the exhibition, a PhD in art history, specializing in contemporary Chinese art. In addition to the publication of Chinese Contemporary Art in Spain (2013) has given seminars on this subject in the Spanish university. She is currently Professor of Art History at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts School of Design in Beijing. He was also a Fellow of the Foundation ICO during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 courses at Peking University.

Published on: November 26, 2014

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