Beyond Humanity series

This is an attempt to capture the inexplicable sorrow of human beings confronted with the indifferent and unfamiliar landscape of the real world. In response to the anxieties and fears conjured by their unknown past and uncertain future, humankind have created figurative gods and beasts in an effort to identify their own “humanity” as well as to provide a pretext for the hidden “bestiality” in human desire.
The overriding atmosphere of this series of photographs is the state of isolation in a post-apocalyptic world, but they instead reveals their spurious nature; just as in the concept of “counterfeiting,” the mass reproduction of counterfeit items comes from one original item. Now that the original item has disappeared, a simulation of the truth of the original might be attempted through its counterfeits, but that only further departs from its reality, until the counterfeit finally replaces the original, and becomes a counterfeit of “the counterfeit.” [YAO Jui-Chung]