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Han Lei

What

Vidéo | super8 | couleur | 13:38 | Chine | 2012

¡¶What ¡· The "what", is my first Video works. Since 1986, I was a photographer and I`ve been travelling different small city in China 1993-1998, I shooting a lot of black and white photographs , During that period, I also use a Hi8 camera casually shooting something.The piece material of "what" all from that Hi8 camera. In fact, I did not think of the future to put them into a film editing. There is just some messy, about some of China`s cities and towns. The middle of 2012, I was opened these Hi8 tapes, I start editing the material, and I hope they become a movie. I don`t want some subjective intervention into the "what", I hope it is messy, I hope it is messy, fury, in a disorderly daily style, commemorate my trip. This movie only made of my own, have not other people involved, music also by me.

biographical Han Lei, 1967 Born in Kaifeng, Henan Province, China, 1989 Graduated from Central Academy of Craft and Design, Beijing, China. Currently works and lives in Beijing, China. in creative photography from 1986. since 1993-1997, Travel in the small cities of China and shoot a lot of black and white photographs. In 1998 series Win The ¡°1998 Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography Awards¡±, (San Francisco, U.S.A) In 1996-1997 A solo Exhibition , show in Helsinki, Finland, Berlin, Germany and Beijing, China. Selected Other solo exhibitions include: 1995 , Brussels, Belgium. 2005 Gallery Polaris, Paris, France, Killing Legend, 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, China. 2006 ¨C 2012: , Gallery LOFT, Paris, France. , Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, China. 2010 , Talkang Space, Beijing, China. 2012 M97 Gallery,Shanghai, china. Selected Group Exhibitions include: 1996 , Reithalle, Munich, Germany, 2000 , Frankfurt, Germany; New York, U.S.A. 2007 Rome, Italy. , Prague International Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. 2012 , Lianzhou, Guangdong, China