Li Wei Falls to Water Hole, 2004Size A: 120x170cm, Edition: 8 Size B: 71x100cm, Edition: 10
Li Wei has a peculiar way of showing people directly interacting with their environments in ways that often appear violent, painful, or tragic. His images combine realistic environments with highly constructed and dramatic scenes usually involving humans. He also plays with notions of gravity that are visually intriguing yet unsettling.
Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery is proud to present the works of Hei Yue, Li Wei and Liu Bolin in the group show « Incarnations ».Incarnation as a person is the manifestation of an abstract notion through human characteristics; here, it is evidently the social and political scopes that are personified through the artists’ bodies.
The correlation between them is not only that of friendship, but they share the same aspiration to create art using their own bodies. Filled with symbolism, the artworks reveal a fierce criticism of politics, power and propaganda as well as the determination to denounce social issues that are tearing their country apart and could jeopardize the future, its future, our future…
In Li Wei’s “Falls,” one of his most representative series, the artist falls from the sky in random places with his head hidden, stuck in the ground. China’s rapid changes have led to major conflicts and problems that are too intense to experience, better to hide from the difficulties and avert the conflict like an ostrich. Hiding is a typical behavior in China where nothing is expressed directly; any sort of disagreement will be oblique, alluded and never explicit, and nobody wants to break the social rules.
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