At first glance, Danwen Xing's photographs look like abstract collages of products lifted from an electronics catalog. But the compositions resonate beyond the frame. The tangled wires, circuit boards, and broken casings in her images belie the raw economics at work in China's Guangdong Province - a thriving dumping ground for the world's obsolete electronics. "These changes have contributed to development in China," notes Xing, who recently spent nine months documenting the e-dump. "But at the same time they have led to an environmental and social nightmare." Ten photographs from her disConnexion series are on display in the Chinese Maximalism show at the University at Buffalo in New York. The exhibit moves to Australia for the Biennale of Sydney in June.
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