Ren Lun’s First Solo Exhibition in London Opening July 3 at the Gallery on the Corner

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TEXT：Sue Wang DATE： 2015.6.24

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So You Can’t See is Ren Lun’s first solo exhibition in London. Continuing his research into the relationship between individuals’ physical, mental and daily environments, this exhibition investigates issues raised by current media art during the post-internet age. The gallery space will be reconstructed into an immersive video laboratory, giving the audience a different dimension: one different from everyday visual experience. So You Can’t See focuses on criticizing current media art; the over use of “flashing” as a technique. There are two main reasons for this phenomena, the first being contemporaneity. We are living in an ever-expanding digital society where people face countless screens on a daily basis including cell phones, tablets and computers. Every screen flickers and our eyes are blinded by a superficial sensory overload. We see but we don’t know – Ren Lun describes us as “the blind generation”.

The second is “artistic expression”. The flashing screen as a kind of technique was a great discovery during the 1970s when video art was born. Nowadays it is found everywhere in video art works. However some artists do not use this particular technique to express their concept, instead using it as a way to announce they have made video art. Since we are living in a time when too much “strobe flash” occupies our eyes, the artist suggests that video art should go back to its true self. Using concepts of time, space and movement brings the media back to what it should be – something more than just flashing lights.

His recentwork, (Action 1-3) he recorded three different types of actions and by expanding them in time through the lens, suggests how video art can effect the perception of time and space.

Solo Exhibition by Ren Lun So You Can't See