Sun Ji creates architectural collages and construed grandiose scenes of abandoned buildings of urban transformation, industrial plants, and storage facilities. Carefully interweaving portraits of buildings before their demise, he extends their existence and creates an illusion of three-dimensionality. Contrast to China’s own demolition in the pursuit of progression and modernization, Sun Ji is able to achieve the same effect by layering, stacking and integrating the obsolete instead of destroying it.
1981 Born in Shanghai, China
Graduated from the Fine Arts College of Shanghai Normal University.
Lives and works in Shanghai.
Selected Exhibition
2009
Memory City, Solo Exhibition, m97 Gallery, Shanghai, China.
2008
Fourth Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, Guangdong, China.
Exquisite Corpse: China Surreal, Group Photography Exhibition, m97 Gallery, Shanghai, China.
Shan Shui Photography Exhibition, epSITE Shanghai, China.
Retrospection Lianzhou 2005—2007, Tomorrow Art Center, Beijing, China.
2007
Third Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, Guangdong, China.
2005
Vision Express Young Artists Exhibition, Shanghai, China.
孙骥创作了建筑拼贴画以及城市变革中废弃的建筑物、厂房和存储设施的拼贴场景。将建筑物被拆毁前的照片精心地拼贴起来，将建筑物的存在加以延伸，营造出一种三维的幻像。同中国在进步和现代化的进程中的毁坏相比照，他能够通过将废弃物分层、堆砌和融合而不是毁灭，从而达到同样的效果.
1981年出生于上海，毕业于上海大学美术学院，现工作生活在上海。
展览
2009
《记忆之城》个展，m97画廊，上海，中国
2008
《精致的尸体：超现实中国》，摄影联展，m97画廊，上海
连州国际摄影年展，连州
《山水》摄影作品展，上海爱普生影艺坊
《回望连州》——连州国际摄影年展三年回顾展， 北京，明天艺术中心
2007
连州国际摄影年展，连州
2005
《视觉惊艳》上海青年美术大展，上海
About Memory City
Essay by Sun Ji
All these photos are about the familiar Shanghai in my memory. When I was still a child, these types of old factories and buildings were everywhere, alive and full of vigor. However, what I used to be so familiar with has literally disappeared in front of my eyes. Being ruthless is part of human nature and so is being nostalgic. While all kinds of old things are being destroyed boldly, we are irrepressibly reluctant to part with the past. I wonder whether architectural remains from past industrial times or whether life in the old lanes of Shanghai can be completely forgotten. But Memory City is about my personal memory of Shanghai, which is real yet also full of fantasy and becoming more faint by the day. After being resorted, reordered and recombined, those well-worn buildings in the photographs and my broken memories have been called back to life in an integral and centralized way, only to disappear again soon. These works are about the vanishing past and the ever-changing times, about the insubstantial mirage and also about conflicts. What I am trying to do is using Memory City to wave farewell to that period of my personal memory.
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Memories are easy to be lost here in Shanghai. From the opening up as a trading port in 1843, to the period of the Republic, the War of Resistance, the Liberation and until the era of reform and opening-up, this city has been dropping pieces of memories all the way, forgetting about yesterday, forgetting about profound people and things. But this perhaps explains why this city is full of charms. Regardless of those splendid or dark days, everything is now gone, like clouds moving along. Shanghai forever belongs to the present moment and only today is served.
I don’t mean to call back those departed days nor feel obsessed with reminiscences and sentimentality. Still, upon seeing certain scenes, I smell the very taste of the elapsed times. It can be seen as the remembrance and honor to the past, to myself and to the city where I still live.
Whatever, only the black and white scenery remains while mountains and waters have passed by.
Forgetting, forgetting, forgetting…
关于“记忆之城”
文：孙骥
这些照片中想象的，是我记忆中熟悉的上海。小时候，这样的旧厂房和住宅，随处可见，生龙活虎。这些曾经如此熟悉的东西，今天却从眼皮底下被活生生地剥离了。人是无情却恋旧的，一边大刀阔斧地裁切着过往的种种，一边却对旧日时光无可抑制地恋恋不舍，工业时代的建筑残留也罢、弄堂里的世态民生也罢，最终会不会被人遗忘干净，我不知道。但“记忆之城”是我对上海的自我记忆，真实又幻想的记忆，一段正在消失的记忆。破败的建筑，破碎的记忆，经过重新排序、组合，以整体、集中的形式复活，而后谢幕。行将消逝的旧生活，日新月异的新时代，海市蜃楼，矛盾冲突，我试图用“记忆之城”来完成对那段自我记忆的告别。
上海从来就是失忆的，它太容易忘却了，从1843年开埠到民国、抗战、解放到改革开放，一路行来，有哪一天它不在忘却，忘却昨日的，曾经刻骨铭心的那些人、事、物；这或许又是它充满魅力的地方，辉煌也罢落魄也罢，一切都是过眼云烟，上海永远只属于当下，它伺候的永远只有今天。
我无意于让过往再来，也不痴迷于怀旧感伤，但看到它们，仿佛就能闻到那个逝去的年代最真切的味道，这也算是对过去，对自身，对我生活过并依然生活着的这个城市的缅怀和纪念吧。
奈何，山水已过，独留黑白，
忘忘忘。
