
Ren Hang
- Publisher
- Taschen
- Year
- 2017
- ISBN
- 978-3-8365-6207-2
- Specifications
- Hardcover
312 pages
22.5 x 30 cm
English / French / German
Edited by Dian Hanson
The only international collection of the work of Ren Hang (1987-2017), who was born in Changchun, Jilin Province, and lived and worked in Beijing. In a brief career of six years his surreal, startling, gender-fluid images gained a huge international following and some 90 exhibitions; before this book he had self-published sixteen monographs in tiny print runs. The book covers his entire practice, from well-loved favourites to many never-before-seen photographs, showing naked subjects in unconventional outdoor settings such as trees, rooftops and urban locations, and it explores his pioneering approach to gender-fluid representation and creative expression amid political constraints in contemporary China.