Ren Hang
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Ren Hang
1987 - 2017
Ren Hang was awarded the Outset | Unseen Exhibition Fund at Unseen, Amsterdam in 2016 and Third Terna Contemporary Art Award, Italy in 2010. His solo exhibitions included “Naked/Nude” (Foam Fotografiemuseum, Netherlands, 2017) and “Human Love” (Fotografiska, Sweden); His selected group exhibitions included “Medium of Desire: An International Anthology of Photography and Video” (Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, USA, 2015); “Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Before” (Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, China, 2015); “Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014” (Minsheng Art Museum, China, 2014); “Suan Tian Ku La: 4 flavors, 4 photographers, 4 eyes on Chinese society” (Grand Theatre d’Angers, France, 2011); “Curated by RongRong: Inner Ear” (Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, China, 2011); and Rencontres d’Arles Festival (France, 2011).
Ren’s works is collected by CAFA Art Museum and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in China; Kansas State University Art Museum in USA; Multimedia Art Museum in Russia; and White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection in Australia. He now lives and works in Beijing, China.
Ren died in Beijing, China in 2017.
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My Mum / 2014
In Ren’s work, the subjects – mostly the artist’s friends who pose nude – are stripped of any sense of self in explicit and often fetishistic images. My Mum is a more light-hearted rendering of this ambiguity that underlines the portrayal of self in personal photography. Posing with the usual props in Ren’s works like animals and plants, the artist’s mother becomes another subject for his carefully staged and colourful images, while she retains her real-life identity in these fictionalised representations of her daily life.
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Untitled / 2009-12
Ren Hang’s carefully constructed staged photography (in some cases pretending to be snapshot) is ambiguous with the subject devoid of any sense of self. At times the work is exploitative and highly fetishistic, provoking an immediate emotional response; at other times it is abstract and minimalistic, inviting a quiet contemplation.
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