ARTIST PROFILE
- 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.
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i took a picture i was sick of motion
- 2012
- Analogue Photograph, edition of 3
- Hand-printed on expired Kodak Endura paper
- 14 x 11 inches
The first portal photograph that I took, that started the series. This is a portal into China, found while wandering the streets of Lisbon, Portugal. The sea foam green-blue walls and the cracking paint reminded me my grandparent’s apartment in China.
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Shifting Between | 2012 - 2014
For the past year I have been moving around, never staying in one place for more than 2 months. The experience has been exciting and fulfilling, but has taken a toll on my health. I started this series as a means of therapy and it is helping me get through the discomforts. I am trying to capture the very essence of transience and what it might look like through the use of analogue photography. This is a portal opening, it is a means of transport from a foreign place to a familiar place. I have begun to search for these familiar places within the foreign, so that I am able to find stability and balance once again, to find lightness to take me out of the darkness.