
Chen Wenwei, Vanished, 2024
城市景观是一座活生生的档案馆——其表面铭刻着时间、适应与抹去的痕迹。我的作品聚焦于野兽派建筑,这些结构既象征着恒久,也揭示出脆弱,它们既是对未来愿景的纪念碑,同时也不断承受熵所带来的侵蚀。
这些摄影作品捕捉了城市空间的原始质感与不断演变的状态,强调建筑坚韧与衰败之间的张力。我并不将城市视为一个静止的实体,而是试图揭示其作为一种动态“重写手稿”的本质——在这里,人类活动、记忆与自然元素持续不断地改写着它的形态。
通过剥离干扰,这组作品将建筑以最直接、最本质的状态呈现出来,促使观者重新思考建成环境如何反映不断变化的社会、文化与政治叙事。与此同时,它也引发人们对我们在城市中留下的印记——以及城市反过来在我们身上留下的印记——的深层思考。
The urban landscape is a living archive—its surfaces inscribed with traces of time, adaptation, and erasure. My work focuses on Brutalist architecture, structures that embody both permanence and vulnerability, standing as monuments to past visions of the future while simultaneously weathering the forces of entropy.
These photographs capture the raw materiality and evolving states of urban space, emphasizing the tension between architectural resilience and decay. Rather than viewing the city as a fixed entity, I seek to reveal it as a dynamic palimpsest, where human activity, memory, and the elements continuously rewrite its form.
By stripping away distraction, this series isolates architecture in its most uncompromising and essential state, prompting viewers to reconsider how the built environment reflects shifting social, cultural, and political narratives. In doing so, it invites contemplation on the imprints we leave upon the city, and the imprints it, in turn, leaves upon us.

Chen Wenwei, Submerged, 2024

Chen Wenwei, Enroached, 2024
陈文蔚是一位摄影师兼平面设计师,致力于探索影像创作与空间感知之间的交汇。她的作品关注建筑、物质的衰败,以及建成环境所承载的心理重量,运用摄影这一媒介进行探索与质询,而非仅仅是记录。
受野兽派建筑深刻影响,她被那些恒久与脆弱共存的空间所吸引——在那里,时间通过侵蚀、层叠与细微的干预显现出来。她的影像挑战建筑的稳定性,将建筑结构视为一个个临界空间,在存在与消逝之间不断游移。她的作品既不关于未来,也不完全关乎过去,而是捕捉那些“介于其间”的时刻——一种记忆、直觉与技术介入相互碰撞的状态。
通过摄影与设计,陈文蔚探讨意义在图像与空间中是如何被构建、解构与重组的。
Wenwei Chen is a photographer and graphic designer exploring the intersections of image-making and spatial perception. Her work engages architecture, material decay, and the psychological weight of built environments, using photography as a medium of interrogation rather than mere documentation.
Deeply influenced by Brutalist architecture, she is drawn to spaces where permanence and fragility coexist—where time reveals itself through erosion, layering, and subtle interventions. Her images challenge architectural stability, framing structures as liminal sites where presence and absence continuously shift. Neither about the future nor the past, her work captures the in-between: a collision of memory, intuition, and technological mediation. Through photography and design, Wenwei examines how meaning is constructed, dissolved, and reassembled in both image and space.
