ARTIST PROFILE

Ding Ren

  • China (b. 1983 in Wuhan)
  • Currently in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Ding Ren is an artist and writer based in Amsterdam, NL. Her work examines cross-cultural patterns and phenomena through analog photographic practices.

  • 2014
  • Analogue Photography/Crayon on graph paper/Scanner on Paper
  • Analogue Photography/Crayon on graph paper/Scanner
  • 10 x 8 inches
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    the waves would welcome it beneath the sea (rock frottage studies) | 2014

I traveled to Ireland to search for the sublime feeling of both beauty and fear that comes with standing on the edge of a cliff, overlooking something. I wanted to investigate geo-cultural patterns and phenomena within the landscape. To prove that these coincidental patterns exist, I made rubbings of the rocks along the coast of Nohoval Cove while also photographing the cliffs and rocks. By chance, the rock rubbings echoed the photographs I took and vise versa.