Faërie (不朽的林泉)

ZHOU Yang’s photographic monographs Faërie was published by Posts & Telecom Press in China in September 2025. The book includes 82 of ZHOU’s black and white large format photographs from her decade-long project exploring the traditional Chinese literati gardens as a form of spatial imagination. Alluding to the Taoist philosophy and legends, the literati of dynastic China constructed the gardens as an Otherworld. Spending a day in the gardens, a thousand years could have passed outside. As such, the garden space is a Faërie within the mortal world. In effect, the garden is a mysterious realm of fairies, ghosts and other supernatural beings, in which our ultimate desire could be fulfilled: Escape from Death.