Li Wei’s oeuvre consists primarily of sculpture and installation. Interpreting Li Wei’s method in her works means one must go beyond the pre-existing category of “sculpture”; the viewer can view the works in any way from the perspective of one installation to a more plural perspective.
Hu Xiangqian’s works are not elaborately thought out, nor do they deal with astonishing content — there are only his sudden inspirations. For the most part, his medium of choice is performance art — the better to achieve a more direct bodily and perceptive experience; some of what he does perhaps targets not the audience but rather the performer himself. As he himself says, “I want to understand my mind through art.”
“BIRDHEAD” was formed in 2004, and their oeuvre consists mainly ofsnap-shots captured of daily life in their native city, Shanghai. They have, over time, shot a large number of photographs, in black and white as well as color, most of which are realistic portraits of the modern metropolis imbued with their distinctive subjectivity and attitude.
