Ren Bo succeeds in re-arranging pixels and bits, iron and video, plexiglass and noise in a way that escapes both scripted mathematic and cybernetic codes and basic post-industrial references. The artist chose all these elements and studied them like relics of a lost semantic order; what is left of their symbolic power is re-oriented in a new-born techno-organic poetic experience. Her peculiar and unpretentious sense of measure allows her to try and build an experience in which elements of traditional Chinese culture and philosophy appear in the apparently contradictory super-structure of digital reality and virtual communication.
The interchangeable positive and negative spaces inform each other in a fluid, alternate sequence of optical plans and vibratory waves (light and sound), while the slow circular movement entertains the hypnotic power of environment as a whole. To achieve this Ren Bo subjugates technology to her quiet and expanded notion of time and space, implementing a sort of New Media Archeology. Ren Bo’s practice, with its “silent shine”, tries to build and share a sense, a view and a common rhythm to resist. “No matter how deep the darkness, we must provide our own light.”
Alessandro Rolandi (Italy)
