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Li Liao 李燎
Spring breeze 春風
2011
In Spring Breeze, Li Liao sits outside a Wuhan office building, chained to the wall by a bicycle lock around his neck. He asked someone who worked in the building to lock him up at the start of the workday, and to release him when they left the office for the day. The video shows Li sitting on the ground, checking his mobile phone, smoking cigarettes, eating, and sleeping. From time to time, he adjusts his position to ease the pain and discomfort caused by the lock. The work’s title alludes to the period of economic reform that brough drastic changes to Chinese society in the 1980s and 1990s. By exposing his body to the urban space, Li investigates the influences and developments that have contributed to the—often vulnerable—position of the individual in China.
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