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Li Wei Exhibition
February 2006 - MAP magazine GALERÍA ESPACIO MÍNIMO
There was once a variety series on American television called “How’d They Do That?,” on which daredevils defied explanation. That’s what you’ll be asking yourself when you cock your head to one side while coming in for a closer look at this photography and video installation. Chinese artist Li Wei, of Beijing, puts himself and his family in situations often morbidly fantasized about, but never visualized.
In “The Life Is a Lot It One,” Wei proceeds to have his ass kicked by a Chinese superbabe as she wings him around over her head like a lasso rope; in “A Pause for Humanity,” you find Wei and his wife grappling their newborn daughter on a steel beam at a construction site stories above Beijing. (How they got up there is anybody’s guess.) In the last photographic series, which also includes a video, a gigantic arm is about to drop him from a high window onto the street below.
Wei definitely loves playing with the thrill and danger of heights — and the possibility that any one of us may fall at any time. Being up may be an adventure, but one false move could find us on the receiving end of a lot of trouble. The modern woes of a modernizing China.
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