Ruins to Renewal: Works by RongRong & inri
SF Camerawork presents:
Ruins to Renewal: Works by RongRong & inri
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 5th, 2008; 5pm - 8pm
Admission: Free
Runs: 6/5/08 - 08/23/08
Tuesdays - Saturdays, 12pm - 5pm
Admission: $5 public; $2 students & seniors; members free
SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street (2nd Floor)
San Francisco, CA 94105
This summer, guest curator Britta Erickson, a well-known expert on contemporary Chinese art, brings together a moving exhibition of the works of renowned contemporary Chinese photographer RongRong and his Japanese wife inri. Ruins to Renewal: Works by RongRong & inri will be on display June 5 through August 23, 2008 at SF Camerawork, the Bay Area’s only non profit gallery dedicated to contemporary photography.
“In the long river of time, we are always blank, but the photos are pieces of evidence, memories, and everything.” Chinese photographer RongRong made this statement in reference to a large group of photographs that date from 1994 through 2008 entitled the Liu Li Tun series. On display at SF Camerawork, this series of photographic works were made around RongRong’s former home in the Beijing neighborhood of Liu Li Tun. The photographs document the neighborhood’s transformation and destruction, from the artist’s daily life with the 1990s avant-garde art movement, to his collaborations with his Japanese photographer-wife inri, to their creation of the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing.
For more information, the public should visit sfcamerawork.org or call 415.512.2020.
This exhibition is funded by grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Columbia Foundation.
