LI SHAN

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LI SHAN
MAN
Oil on canvas
110 x 285 cm
2001
LS34

 
     
 

In early 2002, the British government permitted a couple to "customize" an infant, and to use the stem cells of this baby to cure a patient who suffered from Mediterranean anemia. Human beings are changing the purpose of creating life from life-creating to other "usage". But that is not the point, what will really resonate are the after effects that will come when human being encounter butterfly, fish or any other creature, and the attitude of human being facing this. The enchantment of butterfly and fish is that they can enable human being to have a "shake", remove their long history, and tear down their dignity. It doesn't seem? So harmonious to equal human being to other species, our arrogant way of writing, our vertically walking etc. are all beyond the tolerance of living things. As long as human being can treat their lives as dispensable goods, they have no reason to refuse to let their genome encounter butterflies or fish's. Though the realization of this kind of encounter depends mostly on chances, they are absolutely not ruthless mixing-up. Mr. Jones, professor of London University, once said "the evolution of human kind has already find its end", that suggested it's the time human being should retreat from the current position in biology. Human-fish crossbreeds or human-butterfly crossbreeds have no past, they are pure and beautiful; human-fish crossbreeds or human-butterfly crossbreeds will add many magic experiences to this world.

 

 

 
 

 
 

LI SHAN
READING
Oil on canvas
208 x 539  cm
2001

 
 

 

 

2002年初,英国政府批准了一对夫妇可以“制定”一个婴儿,并将利用这个婴儿的干细胞医治一个患有地中海贫血症的病人。人类将创造生命的目的变为基于某种用途,而不是生命本身。不过,这并不重要,重要的是人类遭遇蝴蝶;遭遇鱼;遭遇其他生物后所产生的后果,及人类对这一后果的态度。

      蝴蝶和鱼的魅力在于它可以使人类“抖动”一下将其背景移开,尊严扯下。人类这个物种在与其他物种相提并论时显得不太协调,那种书写时的武断态度,行走时的立直姿态,都是生物界不能容忍的。

      既然人类可以将自身的生命当作一种可以利用的物品,那么就没有理由拒绝自己的基因与蝴蝶或鱼的基因遭遇。虽然这种遭遇存在着很大程度的偶然性,但也绝非是草率的拼凑。伦敦大学教授琼斯说“人类的进化过程已经完成”,这暗示着人类应该从现在的生物学地位上撤离。

      一个没有背景的人鱼杂种或人蝶杂种是清晰美丽的,一个没有背景的人鱼杂种或人蝶杂种在这个世界上会有许多奇妙的经验。

 
 
 

 
 

LI SHAN
READING NO. 95-3
ink and color on paper
37 x 47 cm
1995

 

 
 

 
 

LI SHAN
READING NO. 95-2
ink and color on paper
37 x 47 cm
1995

 
     
 

 
 

LI SHAN
READING NO. 95-1
ink and color on paper
37 x 47 cm
1995

 
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