The COVID-19 outbreak allows me to make a lot of reflection
About human destiny
Everyone is quarantined
And the world splits up
I feel the world is so unreal
I want to set the whole exhibition
In a time and space which seems remote and unfamiliar
It’s like from the future
New works are present in a new way
All the works are related and interact with each other
But push each other away at the same time
The framework of the exhibition is composed of two major works
One is OVER, which is under the theme of universe
The other is 1098.1 Tons of Desert, which is under the theme of earth
The rest works are like substance squeezed out by the earth and the universe
They’re wriggling
The exhibition starts from a dark object, which is a prelude
It offers the audience a perspective to see and understand the world
And it shows them the way to understand my exhibition
You need to see there’re lots of invisible things around the world
The micro world is at the bottom and it doesn’t represent anything
You cannot really see it with your eyes
It’s isolated and put in a glass box
Like a pathological section of the human world
It’s artificial nature
It’s made from aluminum
It feels like a 3D model without surface
Small works are like still life in the venue
All of them become ‘particles’
I made all the statues with my own hands
It’s where people cannot reach
Just imagine a planet
There’re water and mountains untouched by human
They’ve existed for over a billion years
Desert is the last piece of puzzle of my exhibition
It stands there in isolation
In the form of a building
It’s like the earth
The exhibition is the language base of my future exhibitions
I pay more attention to the structure
Instead of specific works
Long Museum invited me in 2014
But the project got postponed due to various reasons
It’s more meaningful to me
To hold such an exhibition during the epidemic
In fact I’ve abandoned the venue setting
Everyone can do it
Many of my works are only shown for once and then disappear
I will not sell them too
Even they’re wanted
I was asked for many times why did I make such a big thing
With so much money
And then would like to discard it. It’s meaningless
None of my works is certain and distinct
But my attitude is clear
The name OVER represents my farewell to the material world
To a great extent
I had few toys and I was lonely as a child
Then I started to draw at will
To express my loneliness
I had such a talent in childhood
Although I didn’t perform well in college
But I felt I was lucky
Because I was in the right time
I felt I would become an artist after graduation
I should do what I wanted to do, and that was art
It was nothing else
‘Now I like being casual’
‘I don’t really being hardworking’
‘It’s like playing’
We talked about art every day
We spent all the money we earned in our works
We would spend the saving of half a year in one exhibition
Then one day later when the exhibition closed, all the works were thrown away
We never thought about it
And we didn’t care so much about money
It never troubled us
We are really lucky to be embraced by the market
I painted with computer early
But then I felt every one could do it
I should remove the technical elements from the process
I constantly change my style
When the thing becomes easy to me, I start to get tired of it
Surely I’ve encountered setbacks
But at least I can still do art in such way
I’m privileged
If I still mention the pain I have been through
I will be whining
That will be so unfair to others
I don’t have many hobbies
I come to the studio to labor
No matter you’re an investor, a businessman or whatever
You have fertile imagination
But people don’t know how to labor properly
Sometimes when they turn their imagination into reality
They become really cheap
Doing art is a process of making your imagination come true
It’s a laborious work
You can feel it if you’ve made a good work
And you’ll be touched by it
It’s okay if you don’t understand it
But it should at least touch you in some way
The worst situation is that it doesn’t make you think
That would be my failure