Come Back! Ren Kuanghua

social intervention
posters
2014

In the missing persons column, I look for a girl called Ren Kuanghua all around Shanghai by sticking posters. She fled home since she had a dream to be a poet which was objected to by her family. She issued her poetry Night Flight on a Chinese website. However, this figure is fictional, and invented by me. Who would take notice of it, believe in her actual existence, or even make fraud calls to me?

To date I have received several phone calls claiming to have seen her somewhere; or more, contacted Ling (the searcher that I made up) through wechat, inquiring with curiosity; a large number of people went to Ren Kuanghua’s website and called her to go back. People’s attitude and the provided information contribute to the portrait of Ren Kuanghua.

Street Encounter

social intervention
poster, color pencils
2016