Based in Tampa, Florida, Rui Wang is a China born cross-disciplinary artist exploring memory through analog photography \u2013 particularly, those memories that escape from us, whispering away into obscurity. In his new book Not Everything Was Seen, the \u201calmost seen is an invitation\u201d \u2013 when an image holds back, the viewer steps forward. \u201cA reflection on glass, a figure behind a curtain, dusk light softening a street corner \u2014 these are places where presence is felt without being fully declared,\u201d says Rui. \u201cI am interested in that gentle participation, the way a picture can become a mirror rather than a statement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rui\u2019s photographing in an ambient fashion acknowledges scenes without claiming them, photographing as an eternal outsider. In this photobook, Rui shoots typical holiday scenes as if he\u2019s a ghost just passing through, observing events like Bruno Ganz\u2019s guardian angel in Wings Of Desire. Growing up in Taiyuan, China, where traditional painting and calligraphy taught Rui how to care about line, rhythm and negative space, Rui\u2019s photography follows the same kind of rare contemplation that allows his film images to create a low humming narrative. \u201cI want the images to breathe so viewers can meet them halfway. The almost visible matters because life often happens at the edges \u2014 in the pause, the afterglow, the trace that remains,\u201d says Rui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Based in Tampa, Florida, Rui Wang is a China born cross-disciplinary artist exploring memory through analog photography \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-186508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}