Sze Tsung Leong: Horizons

Sze Tsung Leong: Horizons

Sze Tsung Leong, Joshua Chuang, Charlotte Cotton, Duncan Forbes, Pico Iyer • Hatje Cantz

ISBN-10: 3775737898 · ISBN-13: 978‑3775737890 · 2014

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In his new Horizons series, the British-American artist Sze Tsung Leong (born 1970) combines wide-angle photographs of landscapes from throughout the world that exhibit fundamental formal similarities and rhythms by connecting them with a common horizon line. Unconventional juxtapositions allow the viewer to transcend distances and boundaries and to leap from the glacial lake of Jkulsrln in Iceland to the tropical Indian Ocean; from the Israeli separation barrier to the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River; from the suburbs of California to the plains of Kenya. More than ten years in the making, Horizons gives an unfurled view of the surface of the globe. Thought-provoking and witty, poignant and playful, the series is above all a cumulative reminder of the complex and perpetually transforming relations between regions, cultures and nations that constitute the planet we live on.

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