Echoes of the White City

Wenzhao Bi

In Serbian, Belgrade is called the "White City". Over the past hundred years, the Balkan Peninsula has undergone tremendous changes, and Yugoslavia has also vanished in the long course of history due to various factors and problems. With a strong sense of curiosity and the desire to explore, I came to Belgrade for investigation and photography. I attempted to break away from the perspective of an onlooker and participate in the construction of the city's memory, trying to find the memories that once existed on this land. And explore the possible forms of interconnection between cities and individuals, as well as between past cognition and current experience. In this book, I have created three invisible chapters. 1. War; 2. City 3. Peace. Based on the photos taken during my stay in Belgrade and the old photos and materials I collected, I have arranged a vague and open narrative story.

Wenzhao Bi(b2002) His artistic practice always takes regional research as the starting point, and mostly investigates urban areas and their surrounding living environment in the form of local research, finding special and representative elements in which to create. Recently, he has focused on the relationship between flat images and integrated material installations, attempting to express personal feelings by exploring the structure, history and ideology of the current urban development of human society through image research.

Echoes of the White City

Echoes of the White City

Echoes of the White City

Echoes of the White City

Echoes of the White City

Echoes of the White City

Echoes of the White City

Echoes of the White City

Echoes of the White City

Echoes of the White City

Echoes of the White City

Echoes of the White City