HONG HAO
MY THINGS - SCAN
My Things. The project that I started in 2001 is a photography series created by scanning objects. I’ve been working on this project for 12 years. 12 years, in the Chinese traditional concept, represents the period of transmigration in cycles of different fates and destinies. The process of producing works of this series is an assignment associated with one’s life trace.
Day by day, I put my daily consumed objects into a scanner piece by piece, like keeping a visual diary. After scanning the original objects, I save them in digital forms and categorise these digital files in different folders in my PC, in order to make a collage of them later on. This task, like a yogi’s daily practice, has become a habit in my day-to-day life as well as a tool to observe the human condition in contemporary consumer society.
The very action of scanning, through which an intimate relationship between objects and human beings is established, embodies an accurate objectivity, a reducibility and a sense of evidence. Through this practice, I gathered fundamental data of contemporary life and made an inventory of vital social essence through personal experience, so as to generate a retrospective and self-analysing volition.
Hong Hao
Location
Istituzione Bologna Musei
MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
Via Don Minzoni, 14
SCAN
Since 2001, I’ve started scanning objects to create photography artworks. I noticed that the electronic scanning technique is utterly distinguished from cameras. To utilize the former technique, the artist has to hoard and select items and then to obliterate the distance between human beings and objects, as well as between objects and machines, which is different from the necessary space between a camera and its objects.
The lens of a camera serves as a surrogate of human sight, while scanning offers a “feeling” of pasting on the objects. The lens of a scanner reveals the reverse side of what we see; moreover, it visually flattens the items, just like the condition of rubbing. Besides, scanning is the most rigid approach to reveal the real size of objects. Consequently, it objectivelyb possesses entirety and convincing evidence.
I attempt to imbue my undertakings with aesthetical investigations.
Hong Hao
Location
Istituzione Bologna Musei
MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna
Via Don Minzoni, 14
One of the leading modern and contemporary art museums in Italy, MAMbo houses the largest public collection of works by Giorgio Morandi as well as a collection of artistic heritage spanning the history of Italian art from the latter half of the nineteenth centrury to the present in nine themed sections. It offers temporary exhibitions dedicated to internationally known artists and movements.
