communication and communication seems to be a long -lasting parent problem of human art creation. Some creators tend to directly present the meaning of communication with details and daily depictions.Some creators hope to place them under a more magnificent (such as the universe) environment, so that the glory and scenes emitted by the individual blend with the scenes.
Cuban writer Italo Calvino In his book "Cosmicomics", he uses a lot of fantasy and humorous stories to show people between people between the universe.Communication and communication generated.The opening story of the same name "Universe" set the background in the pre -historical period. At that time, the gravity of the earth was different today, so that the distance between the moon and the earth became extremely close in a specific region.
Earth people will set up ladders to climb the moon to collect "Moon Breast" this mysterious substance fictional by Calvino.But one day, people came to the moon to collect "moon breasts" as usual, and the gravity of the earth and the moon changed -the moon began to stay away from the earth.In chaos, some people tried to try to jump back to the earth, while others were always stayed in a foreign country in heaven forever.
It is not difficult to see that longing for communication is an instinct of human beings. At the end of the story of Calvino, people who cannot go back to the earth have produced "poor communication with their well -known blue planets."The distance, for this fantasy story, shrouded a layer of nostalgia.
Li Shuang held his own first Asian exhibition in Prada Rongzhai "The distance of the moon"
For the artist Li Shuang, communication is also a mother question created by her own. In her first Asian exhibition "The distance of the moon" held in Shanghai Prada Rongzhai, she used multiple media works to tellStories about communication.Including the name of the exhibition itself, there is also the connotation of "communication": her name is inspired by Calvinos "Universe". This fantasy story with a little "powerless" color is that she could not go home during the epidemic.Bring great comfort.
Artist Li Shuang
Photographer: Mathilde Agius
In her opinion, the advancement of technology has not made communication more powerful. Real contact still has an irreplaceable position, evenThe advancement of technology has compressed the space that the real communication should have:
"Communication and technology is always the source of inspiration for my creation.It is cold and ruthless. Everyone is compressed into pixels, and the body looks incompetent.—This tools that should be more convenient to communicate, but lose the original magic, but pull away from each other.Lives. Although the information is sent, it seems that nothing is conveyed ... "
Li Shuang held his first Asian exhibition "The distance of the Moon" at Prada Rongzhai
So in the exhibition of "The distance of the Moon", Li Shuang used performances, including performances, including performances, including performances, including performances, including performances, including performances,Interactive websites, sculptures, dynamic images, and multimedia devices and other artistic languages have discussed how technology in the global communication system affects our physical and desires, and then shows the "communication" in her mind.
But for Li Shuang, the focus of this exhibition, or the core, is not an effective communication, but the glity generated in information transmission (here hereMaybe we can use the "failure" of Chinese to make a similar but uncertain explanation) -on a letter written by Li Shuang to his mother and never sent.Vague information has become a incentive for poor communication.It is as if people left on the moon have worked hard to communicate with the earth but have always been unable to be more realistic.
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Entering the exhibition space of Prada Rongzhai, you can directly feel the Glitch in the communication that Li Shuang wants to present.Li Shuangs creative expression is fragmented. In her creation on the first floor space, semi -transparent resins are wrapped in various materials -fabrics, beads, ethylene printed materials, electricity, cables, wires and ready -made items.These objects that contain memory, desires and regrets have a solid structure like the appearance of the mobile phone screen.
"Beauty Noodles", 2024
This is a kind of" poor communication ". Text information is" absent "in these items that carry private emotions. These items have been sealed in translucent materials. As audiences, we can clearly see them clearly., But it is not careful to get more information that belongs to Li Shuangs expression.It seems to be a reflection on the progress of communication technology -all information seems to have tentacles, but the real important details are lost in the screen transmission.
The "poor communication" brought by this technological progress is reflected in many works such as "Shackles" (2024), and the background is printed onThe photographic works on the mesh cloth are supplemented by ready -made items and cables to inject extraordinary texture into images and screens.A large number of works using pearls such as Kingslayer (2024), like a screen of pixels, all refer to the shape and mutation between the screen and the real object.
"Calm", 2024
In the ballroom on the second floor of Prada Rongzhai, communication and exchanges have been further blurred and confused.The video work "Déjà vu" (2022) showed a well -planned performance.Twenty performers dressed as Li Shuangs image replaced her in the opening ceremony of an exhibition previously held in Shanghai.In the formal image, the story revolves around a silent town.Here, people forget their vocabulary, confuse items, and gradually, these people cant express a complete sentence.When they opened their mouths, they couldnt make a sound.Not only in the film, the confusion caused by poor communication has become the ending. In reality, the "absence" that the artist has to make because of the epidemic is also echoing the confusion caused by this kind of poor communication.
"Similar to know each other", 2022
But Li Shuangs work is not only the sense of power brought by poor communication, and some works are also full of efforts she made.For example, a new device on display, "With a Trunk of Ammunition Too (2024), she made a device like a crystal chandelier with a wind chime hung on it.The device forms an internal shape and is placed on the mirror surface.
In this device, the musician Hyphe11e cuts each character in the audio of Li Shuangs letter into two halves, and then all disrupted and reorganized, as if expressing a "communication"The helplessness" —— seemed to face the opponent who could not meet, all the online, non -face -to -face communication made by Li Shuang needed to be continuously translated and confirmed to be understood by the other party.But even so, she still made a lot of efforts for this kind of communication, just like this large crystal lamp, flashing the light of her desire to communicate.
"Also with a box of futile", 2024
Similar kernel alsoIt is reflected in another chandelier device called "Doomsday Lovers", Li Shuang interpreted the form of WeChat dialogue that happened with his mother during the epidemic.Here, the content of the communication and the information that bearer dissipates, and only the signal remains.But this most basic signal also carries the emotional connection between mother and daughter.
"Doomsday Lover", 2024
From this perspective, Li ShuangIt is the invalidity of the confrontation of language in communication.So what information cannot be conveyed because everyone is more popular with online communication?Perhaps it is actual emotional expression. Over the screen, we cannot feel each others emotions, expressions, micro expressions, and movements. These have no way to be recorded by language, but they are extremely important.Essence
It is like Nolan wants to use the core of the story "love can surpass time boundaries" in "Star Trek Crossing" and the core of the story described by Morls.The emotional bondage brings people can still make the conversation "effective" even if they cannot communicate face to face.
It seems that the ends of the electronic band The Avalanches "We will Alway Alway You" in its album "Weightless" replaced the lyrics with ARECIBO information recorded on the travelers number on the travelers account., Establish the lyrics of the entire music in the form of Moels.Here, the content itself is not important. The important thing is that behind the "beep", the desire for real and effective communication is carried.
"The Time to Stolen", 2024
If we have a chance, send a letter to the people who have been forgotten on the back of the moon in "Universe", and the significance of sending the letter itself is far greater than the content of the letter itself.For those in the moon, it represents that on the distant blue planet, some people still remember them, and some people still work hard to get in touch with them.
This is the same for Li Shuang."The distance of the Moon" is not to carry some exact information in the communication, but to show the efforts that people make between people to seek truth and accurate connection by communicating through the behavior of communication itself.Texts may dissipate and blur, but the spirit will stay forever.
Picture thanks Prada
Photography: Alessandro Wang
Edit: Tristan
Written text: Toby
Design: Xiao B
