Chen Ronghui’s Photographs Depict Home As Both Confining and Comforting
about 53 months ago (06/15/2020)
Photographer Chen Ronghui is A Pivotal Figure in Chinese Art – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Richard Vine Plus Icon Richard Vine Managing Editor, Art in America View All June 15, 2020 3:58pm View Gallery 6 Images Shanghai-based photographer Chen Ronghui’s principal theme—feeling displaced while still in place—resonates in unanticipated ways for today’s mid-pandemic viewers. In 2016, the young artist, who was born in 1989 and earned a BA in journalism from Nanchang University in 2011, found the subjects for his best-known series, “Freezing Land” (2016–19), by acting on a strain of domestic exoticism. Like many compatriots from more temperate climes, he had a fascination with China’s frigid northeast region, bordered and culturally influenced by Mongolia, Russia, and North Korea.