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Talent of the Year 2020 - NOMINEE: Zeyuan Ren

Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here
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Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here Have You Been Here
Zeyuan Ren
Have You Been Here
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The Portuguese adventurer Mendes Pinto frequently mentioned‘Portas de Liampoo’ in his The Voyages and Adventures. This East Asia Private Trade Center which was called‘16th Century Shanghai’has already disappeared, and there is also controversy about the positioning of Shuangyu Port. I went to the two small islands which were most discussed in Zhoushan. The two islanders I met told me about the legends of Portuguese and led me to look for possible traces.

However, it needs to notice that the two ‘files’ of personal travel notes and folklore are both mixed with lies and fiction. Patrick J. Geary once said that ‘History is a creative process: history not only restores the facts but also creates the facts.’ This project is based on a controversial travel notes and two folklores, and tries to consider and imagine the vague history through images and performance video, and finally posts a question to Portuguese: have you been here?

About author:
Zeyuan Ren (b.1997, Ningbo, China) is a photographer who focuses on daily images to evoke the viewers’ empathy, meanwhile, he selects the photography, moving image, and documents as the medium to create the work on public topics of history and memory. Taking the photography as an interdisciplinary practice, he believes that the camera could help him build an awareness of reconsider the objects and concepts. He is currently an undergraduate student at Communication University of Zhejiang and will soon be pursuing his MFA in photography at Rhode Island School of Design.

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