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.
Shifting Between (Portal Studies)

Shifting Between (Portal Studies)

  • 2014
  • Analogue Photograph, edition of 3
  • Hand-printed on expired Kodak Endura paper
  • 14 x 11 inches
  • Shifting Between (Portal Studies) - thumbnail i took a picture i was sick of motion - thumbnail

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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.