Guo Jian (b.1962, Guizhou, China) is a leading Chinese Australian artist. His recent series concerns waste that generates from China’s ongoing social development and its impact on the environment and human spirit.

From a distance it is a peaceful landscape or beautiful fugitives in muted tones. As you come closer, you realise the work is a mosaic of tiny fragments: one hundred and thirty thousand miniature faces replace each pixel of the original photograph. Each is cut from rubbish that Guo photographed around the bridges, lakes and hillsides of Guizhou.

• 2024
• inkjet pigment print
• limited edition of 3 + 2AP
• 116 x 35 cm