Chen Ronghui’s Photographs Depict Home As Both Confining and Comforting

Shanghai-based photographer Chen Ronghui’s principal theme—feeling displaced while still in place—resonates in unanticipated ways for today’s mid-pandemic viewers. In 2016, the young artist, who was born in 1989 and earned a BA in journalism from Nanchang University in 2011, found the subjects for his best-known series, “Freezing Land” (2016-19), by acting on a strain of domestic exoticism. Like many compatriots from more temperate climes, he had a fascination