Zhao renhui biography of christopher
Robert Zhao Renhui is is an established, mid-career contemporary artist, who was born in Singapore, like other famous artists such as Luke Heng, Artfarer.!
Since 2013, Zhao has been collecting old photographs of Singapore, focusing specifically on images that capture the city’s landscape and elements related to her natural history.
Zhao, whose practice investigates the human zoological gaze, will be joined by Korean curator Haeju Kim.
The project for his residency, provisionally titled The Museum of Disappearance, sets out to unravel the dormant narratives embedded in the photographs in order to shed a different light onto the complex history of our relationship with nature.
Further expanding on his interest in the interaction between humans and the natural environment, he plans to conduct extensive fieldwork in the backwoods behind his studio, a patch of secondary forest stretching from Malan Road to Henderson Road, documenting its trees and natural habitat.
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Robert Zhao Renhui
Artist · NTU CCA Singapore
COUNTRY OF PRACTICE: Singapore
Robert Zhao Renhui (b.
1982, Singapore) is a multi-disciplinary artist and the founder of the Institute of Critic