Haonan He was born in 1994 in the Yunnan region of China. He is an extra-disciplinary and multi-media artist and researcher. He graduated from the Master ArTeC (Arts, Technologies, Digitization et Creation) at EUR ArTec Paris in 2022, and Post-diploma Art at École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon in 2023.
He focuses on the colonial roots of the issues surrounding poppy-derived drugs and the complex dilemmas they present today. He reveals a postcolonial phenomenon of the Anthropocene, a biochemical transition from plants to the pharmaceutical industry to the human body, illustrating the artificial hyper-dependence of modern society on the pharmaceutical industry and specific plants.
His work has been exhibited at the Yunnan Art Museum in China (2016), the Chengdu Biennale (2021), Les laboratoires d’Aubervilliers in Paris (2023), The Youmein Festival in Tangier(2023), the MAC Lyon(2023). He participated in the intercultural program Culture d'avenir 2022-2023, organized by Centre Pompidou in Paris, CCCB in Barcelona, and HKW in Berlin. He was resident in In Situ Residency Program 2023-2024, co-constructed by the Cité internationale des arts and the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso.
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