Ren Hang’s New China
任航 摄影师 诗人 1987年出生于中国吉林长春，现居北京。在国内外做过多次个人摄影展，参加国内外各大摄影联展，摄影作品常见于国内外各类杂志和书籍，2010年获得意大利第三届特尔纳当代艺术奖，曾出版个人摄影集《REN HANG》、《ROOM》、《NUDE》、《MY DEPRESSION》、《Republic》。
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Araki Loves Polaroids
“The time when a picture is taken is like an emotion, it’s like a sexual encounter. It’s like a fuck! So, timing is very important.”
Bad Sex: Rita Lino’s ‘Entartete’
Entartete delivers solitary sex and guilt and self-revelation so fierce that sometimes it leaves you gasping. By Eugenie Shinkle, ASX, July 2015 Entartete is German for ‘degenerate’. It’s the title of Rita Lino’s latest book. Picked out in lurid Gothic script, the word greets you like the opening credits of a horror movie, leaving […]
Upstairs at Eric’s – Game Recognize Game.
“If there’re gonna be 100 people in my apartment, there are gonna be twenty or so who want to be exhibitionists and expose themselves to express themselves…”
Auto-Erotic Post-Coital Bliss – Lotte Reimann ‘Jaunt’
The duo had created the membrane of their meeting based on the physicality of the auto and their drive to intertwine their bodies through their primary, yet graceless couplings via a chance meeting in an etherized world of electronic falsettos and cum-soaked chat rooms. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, May 2015 The sun stretched […]
Ren Hang and the Production of the Hidden Idealized Body in China
To act out of one’s desire that has been purposefully cloaked under ideology is in fact a direct transgression against the state. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, April 2015 First, let it be said that this oversize production by dienacht of Ren Hang’s work is lush and beautifully crafted. The pages overlap and folds of […]
Ren Hang ‘Human/Nature’ at Capricious 88
The theme is a twine of two strands: the uncanny connection of human bodies and questionable distinction of humanity from nature. By Owen Campbell, ASX, March 2015 The fifth floor gallery space of Capricious 88, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, is large and airy, with south-facing windows facilitating bright sunlight even on overcast days. […]
Feeling of Spring Unworthy of Compassion in Araki’s ‘Marvelous Tales of Black Ink’
@ Nobuyoshi Araki Feeling of Spring Unworthy of Compassion. By Alex Bocchetto, ASX, March 2015 As soon as I open I open Marvelous Tales of Black Ink I’m welcomed by a woman with mysterious eyes, her tits squeezed by hemp rope, She’s looking in the camera with a vague hint of ennui like she’s out […]
Blood Loss and the Spectral Dissonance of Self in Aaron McElroy’s “The Devil May Care”
@ Aaron McElroy The devil may indeed care, but there is a good chance he will simply stand idle at our emotional butchery while the moonlight plays delightful tricks along the contours of the young woman’s pubic thatch and each of her freckles is counted as a mirthful stone hurled…against an absent asbestos choked God. […]
Alexis Penney – Sore, 2014
“Well, I got in trouble for putting naked photos on the Internet when I was seventeen.” Alexis Penney, Sore, 2014 “Well, I got in trouble for putting naked photos on the Internet when I was seventeen,” Alexis Penney told me, when I asked how long he’d been taking photos. Penney, who told me she […]
An Elegiac Response to the Ghost of Surrealist Decadence in the Work of Paul Kooiker
@ Paul Kooiker This is where our shared habits meet concrete. All the possessions accumulated, obsessions sought and tendered in the infernal light of my psychic affairs have led me into the unforeseen garden of these earthly delights. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, February 2015 August, 1935 This is where our shared habits meet concrete. […]
Under Nancy’s Heel, Under Nancy’s Holy Boot – The Crush Photography of John K
I’ve read enough Marquis de Sade to understand that sitting on objects such as candles, improperly folded parchment, and wax encrusted rope can offer a certain sense of pleasure within the penal system, but for some reason, the idea to sit on a bear head, magazine, or American flag had completely escaped my reasoning or […]