Hanqing Ma

"The house, like fire and water, will allow me to remember flashes of waking dreams that illuminate the synthesis of a memory ... reminiscence immemorial and associated with the imagination ... " The Poetics of the space, Gaston Bachelard

"This series of works directs the gaze to the space and sculptural-looking objects of construction sites. As such, the construction space has no identity or function; it is only memory. Deauville has an immaculate and coordinated exterior space. From the other perspectives and aspects of the city, the interior spaces are in a way the remnants of the activities of its inhabitants, when time passed. Then these construction sites became "in-between spaces" throughout the process of urban construction, both spatially and temporally.By recombining the objects and the surrounding physical space, I tried to focus the viewer's gaze on them while bringing them emotionally closer to us. Reconsidering the phenomenology of imagination through photography, these images could raise several questions: how was the space before? What will the city become?"