Borders: Li Yongzheng Solo Exhibition
FLYING CARPET
May 29, 2021 / 2021, Artworks
Type: Installation
Material: Carpet
Size: Dimensions Variable
Date: 2021
Description: The embroidered flowers and grass patterns in the carpet are cut with a circular mold and placed on both sides of the exhibition hall. Some of the flower andgrass patterns are damaged during cutting and be replaced by gray drawings on the site
FROM DING ER’S
May 29, 2021 / 2021, Artworks
Type: Readymade, Installation
Material: Carpet, Wax
Size: Dimensions Variable
Date: 2021
Description: The artist bought all the carpets from Ding Er’s home, a Xinjiang young man, through online shopping. The carpets are left unused after Ding Er moved to his new house. Those carpets are redecorated with wax and displayed in the exhibition hall as the shape of “heart”“flower”“mountain peak”and “window
THE DIFFERENT WILL
Type: Installation
Material: Himalayan Salt Brick
Size: Dimensions Variable
Date: 2021
Description: The natural rock salt from the Himalayas is placed in the shape of “卐 “. This symbol can be found in multiple ancient civilizations and is now one of themost commonly used symbols in Chinese Tibetan Buddhism in the Himalayas. The world gets to know it as the Nazis chose their symbol that is similar to “卐”.
WITH SALT 2
May 29, 2021 / 2021, Artworks
Type: Installation
Material: Himalayan Salt
Size: Dimensions Variable
Date: 2021
2020
May 29, 2021 / 2021, Artworks
Type: Installation
Size: Dimensions Variable
Date: 2021.3
Description: During the most serious time of the COVID-19 pandemic in China 2020, while people are isolated from each other at home due to the need for epidemic prevention, a phenomenon becomes salient which people in different communities singing spontaneously in groups. The artist collected some recordings of that collective singing and placed them in three doors that settle in the exhibition hall. Those songs are converted into a stream of air corresponding to the rhythm of the songs by a sensor installed on the back of the door. The air will flow through the hole of the door mirror and blows the cloth that covers the door mirror.
THE TERRITORY
May 29, 2021 / 2021, Artworks
Type: Installation, Sculpture
Material: 3D Human Scanning of the
Artist, Cement Placement
Size: Dimensions Variable
Date: 2020.3
FEAST
May 26, 2021 / 2020, Artworks
Feast
Type: Sound and 2-Screen Video
Date: 2020.9
Duration: 12.5 min
Description: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the artist leaves the South part of China for the border of Xinjiang and invites the local ethnic groups to have dinner together in a valley in the desert.
LASER
July 19, 2019 / 2019, Artworks
Laser
Jan 2019
Medium: Installation, Video
Duration: 7 Min
(In collaboration with Ma Zhandong)
Description: Place laser pens along a 100-meter section of China’s Western border. Laser beams interweave with one another creating the effect of the flickering red net in the hazy air.
BORDER POST
February 19, 2019 / 2019, Artworks
Border Post
Jan 2019
Medium: Video
Duration: 17 Min
Description: Remove a post from the Chinese Xinjiang border and transport it to coordinates N: 93 ▫ 34’25” – 93 ▫ 46’56” E: 40 ▫ 10’05” – 40 ▫ 22’58”; where stands an ancient segment of the Great Wall of China, which with more than two thousand years of history. Then carry the post following the line of this old crumbling border wall, until arriving at an old fire beacon. Place the post in the ground.