Lu Lei: Floating Ice Biography
Curated by Raúl Zamudio
Other Gallery
3th Street North 706 West
798 Chaoyang District,
Beijing,China,100015
October 27- November
29
Opening: October 27 5:00-8:00pm
Floating Ice Biography is a solo multimedia exhibition by Huangzhou-based
artist Lu Lei. It takes its title from a
poetic, self-reflexive description of the myriad materials the artist employs culled
from visual and aural electronics, heating, refrigeration, petroleum, and many other
industries that are staples of the global trading commodities market. Ice, which by nature is water in a different
form, is a metaphor for not only the transformative nature of art, but many of
Lu’s works have a kind of ontological elasticity such as Cloud, for example.
This work includes a compressor that freezes, condenses and dissipates water in
front of the viewer. As per flotation, this word that also constitutes part of
exhibition’s title allude to a hybrid condition between the terrestrial and
celestial, earth and heaven, inside and outside, and the local and the global that
offers the artist a unique vantage point from which to purview the world and
its machinations.
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