Ren Chenjun
His practice mainly works through performance and is presented through video, photography, and archival forms. His works focus on the condition of the individual within systems of reality, exploring how a person can continue to recognise and understand the self through endurance, repetition, self-alienation, and physical exhaustion.
Influenced by experiences of rural Chinese culture, Taoist thought, and the spirit of “death remonstration” in classical Chinese literati culture, he uses durational actions, transformed everyday objects, and bodily intervention to create connections between the body, environment, and inner perception.
Often taking place in ordinary spaces, his works involve repetitive and physically demanding forms of “manual labour” such as carrying, jumping, or enduring extreme conditions. Through these actions, he explores the relationship between labour, the body, alienation, and individual existence, while attempting to rediscover a more authentic sense of self within the pressure and absurdity of contemporary reality.
任臣君，2003年出生于中国湖北省襄阳市谷城县石花镇，2024年本科毕业于哈尔滨师范大学壁画方向，2026年MFA毕业于皇家艺术学院艺术人文专业。目前生活工作于伦敦和中国。
他的实践主要通过身体行为展开，并以影像、摄影等档案形式作为最终呈现。作品聚焦于个体在现实秩序中的存在状态，关注人在持续的忍耐、重复、自我异化与身体耗费中，如何重新确认并理解“我是谁”。
受到中国乡镇文化经验、道家思想以及中国古典文人“死谏”精神的影响，他通过长时间行为、日常物件的再创造以及身体介入，在身体、环境与精神感知之间建立联系。
他的实践常发生于日常空间之中，通过搬运、跳跃或承受极端环境等重复且高强度的“干活”，探索劳动、身体、异化经验与个体存在之间的关系，并试图在当代现实的压力与荒谬之中，重新感知一种更真实的自我状态。