Ren Hang 任航
REN HANG photographer poet.
born in Ji Lin, China in 1987.
March 2017 suicide (aged 29) in Beijing
When I first met the photographer, news of
his suicide in Beijing made headlines on Chinese social media. It was because
of this news that I and many other Chinese people first realized the master of
human photography. During his short life, he held more than 20 exhibitions in
various countries, and he also made fashion blockbusters for GUCCI. But his
work has long been limited in China by a large amount of soft porn with nudity
and sexual innuendo. So although his international reputation is very
influential, he is little known in his own country.
Unlike other body art photographers, he has
a distinctive personal style. The most common is the twisted, tangled, stacked
human body in his photographic works.
He boldly uses the composition that main
content centered. However often such formal composition, the content is very
absurd and strange even neurotic. This intense contrast accentuates the
uneasiness and gloom in his work.
In his photographic works the model's body
dynamics and curves make the whole
composition rich in line aesthetic feeling.
In an interview with him, Ren said’ People
are more constrained by their traditional and conservative attitudes towards
the body. They consider nude photos to be disrespectful, or even decadent,
because nude photos show what people think should be private. People here hate
nude photos. We hide our bodies in our culture.’
His style is so bold and sensitive that the
human body and still life combine boldly, and each picture seems to have
magical powers. Lipstick on the penis, dead animals, flowers... He ventured to
break through the imagination.
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