Qiu Yangzi, Rotation

Rotation

Qiu Yangzi

Publisher
Art Paper Editions
Year
2025
ISBN
978-90-835199-5-1
Specifications
paperback
24 x 31 cm
184 pages
750 copies
Text by Yue Li, Yingqin Zheng, Manhua Li and Cora Lingling Xu
Design by Jurgen Maelfeyt

Rotation is an ongoing photographic series exploring how urban development reshapes our relationship with space—public, personal, and imagined. It invites viewers to reconsider orientation, perspective, and the fragility of boundaries between the built environment and the body.

Referencing the disorientation of outer space—where gravity dissolves the idea of ‘up’ and ‘down’—the series plays with visual perspective and suspension. Many images are shot through glass, integrating reflections that allude to invisible connections between people and places. This use of light and surface evokes a sense of weightlessness and fluid identity. Since 2021, Rotation has evolved through collaborations with over 20 organizations across cities such as London, Berlin, Stockholm, and Warsaw. With more than 70 works created so far, the project continues to map spatial perception through image-making—blurring lines between architecture, motion, and memory.

This project is supported by the Female Photography Foundation.

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