Cai Yonghe(b.1961) i) Candle Light ii) Vapour of Tea inkjet print on photo paper; set of two edition 1/5 executed in 2012 each: 60x101 cm (23 5/8 x 39 3/4 in)
Ancient tea set, tea table and tea room in a dim atmosphere, presenting works with degrees of heat and literature under Cai Yonghe’s lens. Acclaimed as the “tea photographer”, Cai is long term committed to photographic research and innovation of expressive form. Li Ao commends Cai’s photographic portrait as“the most distinctly ever” and believes he is the best portrait photographer among the young generation. Cai explores all the possibilities of “image writing” by representing on rice paper, wandering at the border of comprehensiveness and superficies, perception affecting present and future.