Live in the South Wind

Memory is the "wrinkle" of time. Exploring the secluded abandoned buildings, only the remnants of objects and traces of human beings would be found.

 Since the arrival of the new century, the transformations and reconstructions brought by urbanization have been staged in almost every city; with the demolition of various buildings built in the last century, Nanning, a city located in the southwest borderland, is no exception. Those spaces in which a generation of people grew up and lived disappeared along with this process. Since 2018, Zhu Baolei has explored deserted buildings all over Nanning time after time, searching for discarded objects and old photos. These abandoned things, for Zhu Baolei, carry the history of a city and a generation. Those old and retired buildings hidden in the cityscape, are worn out by the passage of time and concealed in their silence, plunging and uplifting with the changes of the times, they are like the "wrinkles" of the crust shaped by compression and deformation.

 Following the book "Live in the South Wind", Zhu Baolei leads us to open a gate of memory, resisting the ever-changing spatial memory between abandonment and reconstruction, secrecy and vanishing, transformation and separation. Instead of a single cityscape of nostalgia, what is presented in this book are various perceptible elements authentically rendered by Zhu Baolei through images, such as the variation of urban abandoned buildings, the interaction between people and architectural spaces, the development of the order in residential buildings and the changing of daily life.

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Published by T&M Projects

Produced by Jiazazhi