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Ren Hang: For My Mother

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By (author): Ren Hang

Jet black hair, porcelain skin, bright red lips and fingernails; figures gazing intensely into the camera; young men and women posing acrobatically with bizarre props; animals and plants in the glaring light of the cameras flash, situated in urban landscapes, private spaces, or in nature, among rice fields, lotus ponds, and cacti Ren Hangs photographs are painfully provocative, but also inward looking and dreamily surreal. Ren Hang depicts the human body as an abstract form, often in idiosyncratic arrangements and perspectives, combining iconic images of William Shakespeares dying Ophelia in a river; of Leda, daughter of a Greek king, and the Swan; and of female nudes seen from behind using a distinctive visual vocabulary that draws on abstraction, Surrealism, Dada, and both historic and contemporary photography. Ren Hangs analog photographs use a playful, humorous visual language to relate the feelings, desires, fears, and loneliness of a young generation in China. 

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 14 Oct 2024

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  • Dimensions: 220 x 280mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Hopper & Fuchs
  • Publication City/Country: Belgium
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9789464002003

About Ren Hang

Ren Hang (; 1987 2017) was a Chinese photographer and poet. During Ren's incipient career he was known mostly for nude photographic portraits of his friends. His work is significant for its representation of Chinese sexuality within a heavily censored society. For these erotic undertones he was arrested by PRC authorities several times. He received the backing of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who included Ren in his 2013 Netherlands show Fuck Off 2 The Sequel and curated the photographer's 2014 exhibition in Paris France. Ren's erotic playful and casual yet provocative expression gained him worldwide fame. Ren was born in 1987 in a suburb of Changchun Jilin province in northeastern China. In 2007 in order to relieve the boredom of studying advertising at college he bought a point-and-shoot camera and began shooting his friends. As a self-taught photographer he said his style of photography was inspired by the artist Shji Terayama. Ren suffered from depression. He posted a series of diary entries titled My depression on his blog recording the fear anxiety and internal conflicts he experienced. Ren died by suicide on February 24 2017 in Beijing.

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