LAKI SIDERIS
Beijing Bicycle
Beijing Bicycle #12 2005, Lambda
print, 38 x 38 cm, ed.
3/5
$330 (inc GST)
Beijing Bicycle #14 2005,
Lambda print, 38 x 38
cm, ed. 2/5
$330 (inc GST)
This work examines the paradox of private space in a public environment. The photographs are close up portraits of people riding bicycles through the streets of Beijing. The bicycles have all been cropped out of the frame. In Beijing, cyclists ride at a steady, though determined slow pace. It is a time to be alone, to have thoughts, to be silent. The portraits are linked by common expressions of concentration, fatigue—even melancholia. These cyclists carry their personal, private space with them. Anyone sitting on a corner is free to peer into this continuous and inexhaustible parade; a continually evolving face of China.
