UNITED KINGDOM - LONDON - Rossi & Rossi Ltd August 7 - 29, 2008

Zhou Jun’s work emerges from construction sites and testifies to his ambivalent feelings about the exciting expansion of Chinese cities that inevitably erodes and subverts traditional architecture. Using a Swiss Sinar camera, he has developed his own unique narrative language using black and white images on which certain areas, particularly the scaffolding, are highlighted in red. For example in the Hall of Supreme Harmony construction site in the middle of Beijing’s Forb - idden City, the entire surrounding scaffolding is dyed red.An outstanding image of the architectural masterpiece that will undoubtedly be best remembered from the 2008 Olympics - the national sports stadium known as the Bird’s Nest – emphasises the delicacy of the enormous structure by highlighting in red the network of scaffolding and surrounding railings still in place in 2006.