Pak Sheung Cheung "A Travel without Visual Experience"
Li Yu & Liu Bo "The Victim II"
Li Wei "Li Wei falls"
Pak Sheung Chuen, born in Fujian in 1977, moved to Hong Kong in 1984 where he has lived and worked ever since. In his conceptual art he searches for the contradictions in everyday life and displays them in a humorous and poetic way. He was represented at the Yokohoma Triennale (2008), the Guangzhou Triennale (2008), as well as in Oslo and in New York. ‹A Travel Without Visual Experience› in Malaysia is an exploration of "sight". Pak joined a 5-day / 4-night guided tour to Malaysia blind-folded, relying totally on photos to recollect this place that he experienced, but never really saw. His conclusion is that a sightless man is not necessarily blind, while a blind man is not necessarily sightless. Pak's travels, apart from being processes of encountering new things, are also rediscoveries about himself.
Performance artist and photographer Li Wei, who lives in Beijing, shows himself floating as a green logo on a red flag or sticking headfirst in the pavement. In his mirror performances he exposes himself to the public and holds up a mirror to the audience. His thematic series like ‹Falls› (started in 2002), consist of radical, metaphorically loaded mise-en-scene. Li Yu and Liu Bo, an artist couple, use newspaper reports about unusual occurrences and crimes as topics for their cleverly staged photographs. By changing and remodelling the contents through varying arrangements and light design they defuse the dramatic aspects of the content.
