from landscape with Chinese ink to digital photography
Nomadic Sight is the result in the form of a photobook of the visual journey that Ren Bo began in 2012 around the relationship between the real and the unreal. In it, she blends the tradition of landscape painting with Chinese ink (山水, shan shui, mountains and water) with contemporary photography, to create a modern, elegant and delicate work, which is rooted in the deep relationship that the Chinese artists have had throughout history with nature and the landscape
museum quality photographic print
The Nomadic Sight photobook consists of three elements: the book itself, a museum-quality photographic print ⏤both numbered and signed⏤, and a slipcase
'beauty before'
For years, Ren Bo has experimented with imaging in unconventional ways, studying "in what different ways can image structure and flatness be possible in photography."
This continuous search has given rise to unpredictable encounters, pixel failures and inevitable surprises, with which he wanted to show this " beauty process before, the subtle changes that take place during the generation of an image".
All Nomadic Sight photographs have been taken with a mobile phone. In post-production, there is virtually no retouching; only, the conversion of some images to black and white
遊⽬
The name of the photobook in Chinese, 遊⽬ (Yóu Mù) ⏤translated in English as Nomadic Sight⏤, distills the essence of Ren Bo's project around the moving landscape. Yóu (遊) means to travel, wander, pass through, while Mù (⽬) means eye, sight, order. “The journey is inseparable from the landscape. The journey is part of human nature, and of the nature of mountains and rivers. The divinity that exists in each one of us communicates with the divinity of the landscape”, she assures
beyond the pages of the book
Nomadic Sight extends beyond the pages of the photobook. All his images, with the exception of the one included in the numbered and signed giclée copy that accompanies the book, exist in limited editions of 8 and 6 units. The first ones are framed with high-quality aluminum trim, anti-reflective glass and passe-partout, while the second ones are offered in dibond.