La Luna y el Hacedor 月亮与创造者
Photography
2020
In La Luna y el Hacedor (2020), Tianjun Li reactivates a personal archive of photographs taken in New Zealand, China, and Cambodia before the pandemic, reshaping them during the 2020 lockdown into layered compositions of double exposure and recombination. Ordinary travel and daily encounters become a dreamlike cosmology where vast landscapes dwarf fragile human figures, and fog recurs as a threshold of uncertainty.
The series resists straightforward documentation. It dislocates time and geography, folding distant places into one continuum and echoing the suspended state of lockdown, when the body was immobile but imagination roamed freely.
The figures of “the moon” and “the maker” evoke cycles of renewal, light, and shadow. Their role is atmospheric rather than symbolic, pointing to the entanglement of human life with larger forces. Fog, as both image and metaphor, conceals and reveals, mirroring uncertain ecological and political futures brought by the pandemic.
!st Place New Talent Award Exhibition, Kuca Legata Museum, Belgrade Photo Month, 2023
Hamburg Portfolio Review Public Exhibition, Hamburg, 2023