ART | REN HANG

Photographer Ren Hang has certainly made a name for himself. Notably, to the authorities back in his homeland of China who want to censor him, or more to the point, arrest him. But in art circles around the world he's known as photography's new blood, shooting his friends in the nude, sometimes in deliberately provocative and explicit poses. 

You may not know his name yet, but you definitely would have seen some of his images floating around social media. If you are in LA check out his new exhibition - What we do is secret - and get his latest book here before its sells out like the rest of them.

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READ | Book of Odes

Quiet, still and undemonstrative are but a few words to describe the black-and-white beauty that Chinese artist, Taca Sui, captures. Pictures of landscapes, statues and rivers enclose their possible meanings to the viewer; instead what remains is purity, one echoing that of nature itself.

Sui’s Book of Odes is the published collection of these photographs, all of which refer to ancient poems within Chinese culture, understood to be the first recorded works of oral poets gathered from rural China by the philosopher, Confucius. Each of these short, nuanced poems, were intended to produce attentive listening, acute observations, and a reflection upon nature that have been corresponded seamlessly into Sui’s Odes, bringing the ancient into the now Modern China.

You can see Taca Sui’s work at Artspace as part of the 19^th Biennale of Sydney, from 21^st March – 9^th June 2014. 

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