Chen Wei

The photographs of the Chinese artist Chen Wei, born in 1980, are
staged depictions of dark, mysterious and disquieting interiors. The
viewer is confronted by rooms that are always deserted, mostly
doorless. They are nightmarish scenes that evoke feelings of anxiety,
the kind of feelings that are inevitably accompanied by a racing
pulse, breathlessness and claustrophobia. In “A Rat’s Post Office”,
the anonymous writer of countless unsent letters seems to have
escaped this nightmare. Chen Wei’s photographs are staged scenes
of destruction and desecration, worlds from which their inhabitants
have fled in desperation