Pékin Fine Arts is pleased to host our 1nd solo exhibition by Liu Di (b.1985 Shanxi Province), the 1st prize winner, among 80 international photographers, of the prestigious Lacoste Elysée Prize 2010, dedicated to young photographers, and given in partnership with the Musée de l’ Elysée (Lausanne, Switzerland).

His 1st solo exhibition in Beijing will début two new 3D animation videos, “The Weight of Oneself”(2017), and “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion”(2017), alongside recent photo works.

Liu Di’s work with 3D digital video animation and related techniques focuses on critiquing the conflicting relationship between nature and human society. Abnormal growth underlies Liu Di’s work, as inevitable by-products of hyper-fast economies fueled by widespread urbanization.

With subtle humour and science fiction-like stylizing, the artist uses traditional landscape and nature photography to “pose” his subjects in peculiar visions of a sci-fi-meets-magical-realism world where nothing and no one is entirely normal or healthy. Wierdly cute in their otherworldly and distorted forms, animals and humans float in an unreal realm, amidst familiar urban landscapes, monumental buildings, public housing, run-down courtyards, bath houses, and parks of the imagination.

Liu warns:“ We wake up and regain alertness only after stereotypes are broken down”.“The appearance of huge animals points to the unreliability of common sense, and the gaps in how we perceive the world.” “With a new awareness of our incomplete understanding of objective reality, we begin to doubt the narrow and limited subjective world. Only at this moment, can we get closer to what is real, and grasp the more lasting and valuable things beyond the trivialities of daily life.”

Opening Reception: 4 Mar, 2017, 2PM - 6PM

All Welcome!