WEEKEND 周末 | Lei Lei 雷磊
Hardcover, 168 pages, a slice of fridge magnet
214 images
26.5 × 28.6 × 1.5 cm
1.5kg
ISBN 9784909442352
Which are more significant, artworks or art archives?
Which is more important, the picture or the process of image production, the way an image is viewed or the positioning of the image?
Today’s issues with photography have officially given way to issues with the image. With Weekend, the artist and Beijing / LA resident Lei Lei not only displays artistic nostalgia, but also the constant quest for certainty regarding history, family and personal identity. His work can be seen as a type of “creative thinking” on the theme, an artistic strategy related to future imagination, and a contradictory position on emotions that cannot be returned to today.
As philosopher and art critic Boris Groys pointed out: “Life can be recorded, but it can’t be shown.”
It is also because of the complexity of this contradiction, and the images that comprise the artist’s works that different images taken at the point of visual transformation and dialectical form between the calm and the energetic are shown, so that “nostalgia” becomes a truly contemporary medium in the practice of image art.
—— Dong Bingfeng
About the artist
Lei Lei, 1985 Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.
In 2009 He got a master's degree in animation from Tsinghua University.
He was the winner of 2014 Asian cultural council grant.
In 2017 he works in CalArts Experimental Animation program as Faculty member.
In 2018 he invited for New Academy Member for the Short Films and Feature Animation branch. In 2019 his first feature film Breathless Animals has been selected by Berlinale Forum.
攝影書《周末》簡介：
藝術作品（art works）重要，還是藝術文獻（art archive）重要？圖片（picture）重要，還是關於圖片生產的制度及其觀看方式與立場重要？
今天，攝影的問題正式讓位於圖像的問題。《週末》是居住在北京／洛杉磯的雷磊一直持續進行的項目，其主題中始終貫穿著某種「懷舊」意識。這不僅說明藝術家對歷史、家庭與個人身份不斷尋找與確認的過程，更可視為他對此主題所進行的一種「創造性的思考」——一種關乎未來想像的藝術策略，以及對當下不可能返鄉之情感所持的矛盾立場。
正如哲學家與藝評家 Boris Groys 所指出：「生命可以被記錄，但不可以被展示。」也正因這種矛盾的複雜性，以及藝術家作品中不同圖像在靜態與運動關係之間所呈現的視覺轉換與辯證形式，使得這種「懷舊」真正成為一種屬於當代圖像藝術實踐的媒介。
——策展人：董冰峰
WEEKEND 周末 | Lei Lei 雷磊
Hardcover, 168 pages, a slice of fridge magnet
214 images
26.5 × 28.6 × 1.5 cm
1.5kg
ISBN 9784909442352
Which are more significant, artworks or art archives?
Which is more important, the picture or the process of image production, the way an image is viewed or the positioning of the image?
Today’s issues with photography have officially given way to issues with the image. With Weekend, the artist and Beijing / LA resident Lei Lei not only displays artistic nostalgia, but also the constant quest for certainty regarding history, family and personal identity. His work can be seen as a type of “creative thinking” on the theme, an artistic strategy related to future imagination, and a contradictory position on emotions that cannot be returned to today.
As philosopher and art critic Boris Groys pointed out: “Life can be recorded, but it can’t be shown.”
It is also because of the complexity of this contradiction, and the images that comprise the artist’s works that different images taken at the point of visual transformation and dialectical form between the calm and the energetic are shown, so that “nostalgia” becomes a truly contemporary medium in the practice of image art.
—— Dong Bingfeng
About the artist
Lei Lei, 1985 Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province.
In 2009 He got a master's degree in animation from Tsinghua University.
He was the winner of 2014 Asian cultural council grant.
In 2017 he works in CalArts Experimental Animation program as Faculty member.
In 2018 he invited for New Academy Member for the Short Films and Feature Animation branch. In 2019 his first feature film Breathless Animals has been selected by Berlinale Forum.
攝影書《周末》簡介：
藝術作品（art works）重要，還是藝術文獻（art archive）重要？圖片（picture）重要，還是關於圖片生產的制度及其觀看方式與立場重要？
今天，攝影的問題正式讓位於圖像的問題。《週末》是居住在北京／洛杉磯的雷磊一直持續進行的項目，其主題中始終貫穿著某種「懷舊」意識。這不僅說明藝術家對歷史、家庭與個人身份不斷尋找與確認的過程，更可視為他對此主題所進行的一種「創造性的思考」——一種關乎未來想像的藝術策略，以及對當下不可能返鄉之情感所持的矛盾立場。
正如哲學家與藝評家 Boris Groys 所指出：「生命可以被記錄，但不可以被展示。」也正因這種矛盾的複雜性，以及藝術家作品中不同圖像在靜態與運動關係之間所呈現的視覺轉換與辯證形式，使得這種「懷舊」真正成為一種屬於當代圖像藝術實踐的媒介。
——策展人：董冰峰
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