Lost and Found at Gallery Magda Danysz - Paris - Peikwen Cheng 郑培堃 | Artist and Entrepreneur

I’m excited to return to Paris and exhibit my Lost and Found series in entirety for the first time
– in a solo exhibition at Gallery Magda Danysz.

The series Lost and Found is about dreams. It traces a journey to a distant place where people are free to realize their dreams. As adults, we often feel that we can’t do this or can’t do that. We might feel bound by the restraints of the “real world”; however as children, we feel boundless. We are only limited by our imagination. Lost and Found is about regaining this freedom to not only dream, but to realize one’s dreams.

This is a surreal dream for myself – having started this series on the dusty playa in 2000 as a novice, self-taught photographer.

Thank you to all of the people who inspired, encouraged, and gave constructive feedback along the way. You have helped me nurture my passion and articulate my visions.

Hope to see you at the opening:

Lost and Found
Solo exhibition by Peikwen Cheng

Galerie Magda Danysz
78, rue Amelot, Paris 75011
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Exhibition: May 17 – June 7, 2014
Opening: May 17, 2014, 6-9 pm

From Magda Danysz:

Peikwen Cheng is a young Chinese photographer, a “footloose” photographer in the words of the journalist Nicolas Jucha. His works from the serie called Lost and Found derive their source in the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert of Nevada, hostile and inhospitable landscape in which meet annually fanciful characters who give free rein to achieve their dreams and strange whims. Peikwen Cheng talks about this excess and peculiarity, in his serie of photographies taken between 2000 and 2013, and shows an unreal universe filled with plastic sunflowers, huge rocking horses and with rockets who seem come from a tale. In his startling visions, such as childhood dreams, Peikwen Cheng captures the precise moment when the dream seems to reach reality.