Zhang Peng’s Photographic Art- Brilliant

Zhang Peng’s photographs look like stills from fantasy animation films; they are in fact documents of elaborate sets featuring little girls. Originally trained as a painter, Zhang approaches his compositions with a heightened sense of drama, using intense colors, theatrical props, and obscure angles of perspective to create a sense of artifice and illusion from reality. Zhang uses the medium of photography to subvert its archetypal associations of perfect representations and sentimental keepsakes. Portraits of children that would normally convey hope and aspiration, through Zhang’s lens, transform to grotesque distortions. In Gui Fei, a child dressed as a traditional bride appears manufactured and doll-like, her identity molded and objectified by parental and social expectation. As in many of Zhang’s photos, her eyes have been manipulated to enhance her ‘flawless’ appearance, referencing the ‘westernized’ feminine ideals disseminated in Asian media, as well as the increasing trend in plastic surgery.

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