When Naiwen Zhang returned to Wuhan, China—the city where she was born and raised—after graduating from college in the United States, she was shocked by how much the place had changed. “This gave me a strange feeling like there are two worlds, the one I live in right now and the other in my mind,” she said.
To capture the feeling that her inner world did not respond to her outside reality, she began taking photographs of her hometown. The resulting series, “Day Dreams,” was on view at the ICP-Bard MFA Studios in Long Island City from May 15-18. Zhang is a 2018 ICP-Bard MFA candidate focusing on photography and video.
“In documenting this feeling of estrangement and desolation, I look deeply at the concept of place and memory,” she says of the work.
A selection of images from the series is below. All photographs © Naiwen Zhang.
The park, 2017
Two girls walking, 2017
Fire, 2017
The mirror house, 2018
Lizard, 2017
Mom, 2017
Swimming Girl, 2017
Damped walls, 2018
The tunnel, 2017
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