Online Viewing Room

Using elements form the reality as materials, Ke intends to present the unique scenes of life in cities within a defamiliarized context in the gallery space while untouched deliberate stage arrangement. Her work discloses the psychological effect on people living in urban cities through unfolding their different living situations, ideologies and languages of self-reflections.

"I like objects that don’t have much of a style. Like patterns in colouring books, clean black lines, and primary colours. Things that aren’t trying to sell you an ideology or concept. Most visual languages are so coded, so if I see things that are almost innocent, they really stand out to me."

——Peng Ke, interview with British Journal of Photography, 2018