Jiang Pengyi's Photographic Exploration of Light and Time

Jiang Pengyi employs cameraless techniques to record bioluminescent insect movements in his series Dark Addiction (2013), creating traces that evoke cosmic birth or death. His work hovers between abstraction and figuration, making ephemeral phenomena tangible through light-reactive processes. The artist developed this approach in The Suspended Moment (2013), capturing light refractions through cracked ice, and continued with In Some Time (2015–), producing abstract color blurs on photosensitive paper. Jiang lives and works in Beijing, where he received the Aletti ArtVerona Prize for Photography in 2011 and was nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2012. He has held solo exhibitions at Shanghart and Blindspot Gallery (2010–17) and participated in the Guangzhou Image Triennial in 2017. His photographs combine technology and aesthetics to encapsulate light, time, and life's essence.