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Red Illuminates Jialin Long
Red Illuminates Jialin Long

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Red Illuminates
Jialin Long
PhotoIreland

English

Designed by Ángel Luis González Fernández

 

Softcover
Edition of 200
36 pages
148 × 210 mm
2020
ISBN Not Available

Red Illuminates, a multimedia work comprising still and moving images, explores the concept of culture in socialist countries and how loyalty to the state is cultivated. The catalyst for the project was found in a residential area of Beijing where ‘Special Criminal Syndicate Combat’ propaganda posters were displayed, on average, every 40 meters. These are presented alongside large-format portraits of so-called young pioneers emulating Mao Zedong’s portrait in Tiananmen Square. A white orchid blooming under artificial grow lights, a still from a video work, is listening to communist propaganda from CCTV (China’s official news channel) continuously for 30 days. Long asks the question, “could this conditioning eventually turn a white orchid red?”. This publication was produced as part of the Inspirational Arts Award 2020, where each finalist received a TLP Edition of their graduate project. Jialin Long represented the Dun Laoghaire Institute Of Art Design and Technology.1

About the Artist

Long is the Inspirational Arts Photography Award winner, the Gallery of Photography Ireland Graduate Awards winner, and Courthouse Gallery graduate award exhibition awardee in 2020. She was nominated as one of the FUTURES Irish Talents in 2021. Her latest work is a project commissioned by The Creative Ireland/ Dublin City Council Arts Office around the theme of diversity, which challenges stereotyped views of the Chinese community in Dublin. Long is a recipient of the Visual Arts Bursary Award and Agility Award from the Arts Council. Her photographs are in the collections with the Arts Council Ireland and with private collectors.

About the Publisher

About the Series
TLP Editions are an ongoing collection of contemporary photographic projects in the form of accessible and inexpensive publications by PhotoIreland. These A5 sized booklets present a standard format throughout the series, with 36 pages each, a cover with a text block of under 140 words that introduces the project, and the title and the artist name only available on the contra cover. The project creates a node of opportunities as it allows photographers to enter the publishing arena, while facilitating access to contemporary artistic practices to the general public.2

About the Publisher
Founded in 2009, PhotoIreland was conceived as an organisation that would stimulate a dialogue around Photography in Ireland by developing a varied array of initiatives and events with a strong participative approach.

External links & References

  1. https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/tlp-editions/products/red-illuminates
  2. https://www.100archive.com/projects/tlp-editions