REN HANG

Hang was a poet as well as a photographer: it could be said that the two artistic expressions were in him the positive and the negative. Photography is the light, poetry the shadow, both sides of his personality already strongly undermined by depression.

The human body was the predominant subject of this author's work. He manipulated it, apparently using it to his liking as if he wanted to affirm that the concept of form cannot be determined a priori but pertains to the sphere of personal feeling and how this emerges by crossing layers of experience in a completely natural way. The bodies of Ren Hang's models - all similar to each other, slender, hairless, with very white skin and black hair, red lipstick and nail polish for women - were transformed into sculptural forms where gender is not important.

“We were born naked - Hang said - I only photograph things in their most natural condition”. His photography is a refusal of approval.