From April 19 to July 21, 2019, Shanghai’s Power Station of Art presented Hélène Binet: Dialoghi, works from 1988 to 2018, the French-Swiss photographer’s first solo institutional exhibition in China. The exhibition offered a comprehensive overview of Binet’s accomplishment in more than 100 works of analogue photography, including some of the most iconic photos taken throughout her 30-year professional career and her newly commissioned series featuring the walls of Chinese Suzhou Gardens. Marking a new direction of PSA’s “Architecture & City” exhibition and research program, Dialoghi (Dialogue) opens up a new standpoint for viewers to approach architecture through the art of light and shadow.
Born in Sorengo of Switzerland in 1959, Hélène Binet grew up in Rome, Italy. There, she studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design, and worked briefly at the Grand Théâtre de Genève after graduation. After moving to London in the mid-1980s with her husband, architect Raoul Bunschoten who was teaching at the Architectural Association, Binet gradually turned her attention to architectural photography, and soon acquainted herself with a list of emerging architects in the British capital, including Zaha Hadid. Encouraged and recommended by Alvin Boyarsky, then Chairman of the Architectural Association, and other fellows, she headed to Berlin for her first project and rose to become one of today’s foremost architectural photographers.
Most of Binet’s photographic works focus on European modern and postmodern architecture, while recently starting to develop an interest in natural landscapes and classic Asian architecture. She remains one of the rare enthusiastic devotees to analogue photography.
SPECIFICATION
Published in 2019
Edited by Power Station of Art
Designed by Jiazazhi
Language: Chinese
330 x 225mm, 228p, soft cover
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