Li Ming: Dolens

Li Ming

Dolens

Video, color, sound

21 min 49 sec

2022

 

This is a story of a long journey, although the returning traveler does not reveal that anything unexpected has happened. Amidst the haze, clouds, airplanes and fire, an arrangement is made with tears and a passionate embrace, as well as a harmony that has long since disappeared.

 

About the Artist

Li Ming was born in 1986 in Yuanjiang, Hunan. He currently lives and works in Hangzhou. Li Ming's video practice always discloses a self-directed working style. As an effective means of expression, an image can easily transform motivation. He has developed a methodology of putting the idea of his work behind the image that is the result of his mind fermenting, which gives his creative process an "impromptu" state. Rather than saying this creative context is a game being managed by the artist, it is better to understand this as a first-person author who is letting things take their natural course.

MACA Art Center is a non-profit contemporary art institution housed in a standalone building of minimalistic industrial style and futuristic design in Beijing's 798 Art District, a major hub for arts and culture in the city. Through forward-looking and experimental content, MACA aims to enable communication traversing disciplinary boundaries while forging international dialogues grounded in the specificities of a Chinese perspective. Our programmatic scope, which spans exhibitions, research initiatives, pan-performance practices, and alternative communal engagement, signals a commitment to exploring ideas outside established epistemic frameworks. MACA seeks to position itself as a new institutional mode, proposing an alternative coordinate within the topology of Chinese contemporary art. Through art, we address our radically transforming times.