Platform China

Accident - Li Yan Solo exhibition

20 Oct - 25 Nov 2007

Accident No.1
Accident No.2
Accident No.3
Accident No.4
Accident No.5
Accident No.6
When an incident occurs, some people will chose to elude it, some others will chose to face it. The former’s instinct is to protect themselves, the latter’s one is to confront it. However I don't want to elude or to confront incidents, I’m just trying to put them out of context to re-observe and re-order them.
Sometimes, it’s useless to explain the facts but to present them without any embellishment is more close to the reality. A dead body lying on the street it’s a scary and frightened reality, but a dead body lying on the street as a fact could be so dispassionate.
The war is one example. All the information that media give to the people who are far away from the war cannot be equal to the real war. For sure the information are cruel, but not as cruel as the reality. So why not break those images created by the information to re-order them, to represent the incident’s scenes, colours and formats.

 

Tags: Li Yan