{"id":8323,"date":"2019-08-22T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8323"},"modified":"2025-02-14T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T02:46:11","slug":"hong-hao-in-turn-of-the-century-photography-in-china-at-chambers-fine-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/22\/hong-hao-in-turn-of-the-century-photography-in-china-at-chambers-fine-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Hao at Chambers Fine Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For over a decade, item by item, Beijing-based artist Hong Hao scanned his belongings for \u2018My Things,\u2019 a series of digitally constructed collages detailing his possessions, from the orderly spines of hundreds of books to more chaotic-seeming arrangements like this one that combine elements from different aspects of life.\u00a0 The abundant objects in each image of the series speak to consumption, but Hong Hao <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.vam.ac.uk\/item\/O1318393\/my-things-no-1-photographic-print-hong-hao\/\">explains<\/a> that the act of scanning is meaningful as well as it \u2018embodies a calm observation without any pre-judgement, a plain testimony, a relevant context for aesthetic exploration.\u2019 (On view in \u2018Turn of the Century:\u00a0 Photography in China\u2019 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chambersfineart.com\/exhibitions\/turn-of-the-century-photography-in-china\">Chambers Fine Art<\/a> in Chelsea through August 31<sup>st<\/sup>.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8324\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/22\/hong-hao-in-turn-of-the-century-photography-in-china-at-chambers-fine-art\/hong_hao\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8324\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8324\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/hong_hao.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/hong_hao.jpg 3060w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/hong_hao-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/hong_hao-500x286.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hong Hao, My Things No. 3, scanned color photograph, edition 9\/15, 2001-2002.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over a decade, item by item, Beijing-based artist Hong Hao scanned his belongings for \u2018My Things,\u2019 a series of digitally constructed collages detailing his possessions, from the orderly spines of hundreds of books to more chaotic-seeming arrangements like this one that combine elements from different aspects of life.\u00a0 The abundant objects in each image &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/22\/hong-hao-in-turn-of-the-century-photography-in-china-at-chambers-fine-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hong Hao at Chambers Fine Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,8551,2165,117,2166,2521,13,8548,8549,2846,17,8550,16],"class_list":["post-8323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-belongings","tag-chambers-fine-art","tag-chelsea","tag-chinese","tag-consumption","tag-gallery","tag-hong-hao","tag-my-things","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-scanning","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2af","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12147,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions\/12147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}