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XIANG LIQING 向利庆
b. 1973, works and lives in Shanghai
XIANG LIQING 向利庆
2007
Mental, flax,paint
(in 33 pieces) | Variable dimension
XLQ_9337

I had been thinking of this work all the time, but only started to work on it until 2007. Then I put it aside. I assume a lot people have done this: you work on something, but then put it off and turn your attention to others. When looking back, it has been decades.

Very often, we have no idea what certain historical objects mean and what they are used for. And we can only have a guess: this may be used for sacrifice, while that may be used to be containers. In the same way, the present, in the future, might be forgotten or become a puzzle.

We are drown in the sea of knowledge and restricted by what we know. Nowadays, we have a more scientific way to divide the fields of studies, but somehow it seems hard for us to reach further. You might know nothing about what you want to reach. Plenty of time may be consumed in this way. Here, what I see is a kind of incapability which is restricted by knowledge and time.

The reason why I put this work aside is I wanted a better presentation. My other works and projects consequence in much less devotion for this work. Very often, you will just forward slowly, when you think a lot. People, in a common and widespread way, have a poor memory. Especially once you put something in a box or crate, it is very likely that you may forget them completely. Like the food I put in my fridge!

I will keep making art, but no rush.

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Related Exhibitions:
The Uncertain, or the Shelved..., ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai 07.16, 2016 -08.25, 2016



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