? Photographer, provocateur, poet : Ren Hang has died at 29 : Shanghaiist
▻http://shanghaiist.com/2017/02/25/ren-hang.php
The news of the death of Ren Hang (任航), a leading photographer of his generation, was met with widespread disbelief in China and around the world on Friday, as art insider and aficionados alike took to Weibo and Twitter to mourn his loss.
The controversial and subversive provocateur is understood to have committed suicide by jumping off a building on Friday morning. He would have turned 30 in March.
Having struggled with debilitating depression for years, Ren turned to poetry to chronicle his battle with the disease. He had often foreshadowed his own death in postings on social media.
“Every year, my wish remains the same: to die earlier,” Ren wrote in a recent post on his Weibo account less than a month ago. “I hope this year, it can become reality.”
In another post in 2014, Ren wrote about the time he almost jumped out from the window of his friend’s apartment.
Un travail où se mêle la provocation et le perfectionnisme technique. Un désir de vie sur papier glacé.