Zoom: The inner seasons of Han Feng

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” Few ideas resonate more deeply with The Gift, the still life photography series by the artist Han Feng, than this reflection by French philosopher Simone Weil. Created in the quiet of her New York home during the pandemic, the photographs are intimate compositions of fruits, vegetables, stones, ceramics and treasured objects collected from around the world, assembled on an antique Chinese wooden table. There, the everyday becomes extraordinary. A precariously balanced pumpkin, a chipped porcelain bowl, a motionless yet swimming ribbonfish, a withering flower – each is not merely a subject, but a gesture, a moment suspended between memory and play. In Han Feng’s lens, the language of cuisine, vessels, and lights wave into a visual diary that is both personal and universal.