Outside the Outer Ring Road - Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition
Museum Director: Qiao Wei
Exhibition Coordinator: Wang Chen
Opening: Sep 10th, 2017 at 2pm
Exhibition Date: Sep 10th - Oct 10, 2017
Venue: XinQiao Art Museum, No.193, 255 Lane, SiZhuan South Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai, CHINA
In the course of the building of Chinese cities, the establishment of the main traffic arteries greatly influences the development of various districts. In the process of expanding, many cities build ring roads: First Ring Road, Second Ring Road, Third Ring Road, Fourth Ring Road, Inner Ring Road, Middle Ring Road, Outer Ring Road and so on. The massive city unfolds at at an unbelievable speed. Through this process of urbanization, the ring roads draw the suburbs back into the fold of the city and its systems. At the same time, new industrial parks are continuously being extruded. In Shanghai, this city of exorbitantly priced real estate developing at breakneck pace, has seen the industrial activities moved from the city center to beyond the outer ring roads—the remote corners of the city. Most of the works in Li Xiaofei’s “Assembly Line Project” series are shot in these peripheral areas exploring the living conditions and the environmental situation of these marginal zones. Concern for others is a human imperative, but such helplessness and sorrow. These works sift through the details to reveal this state of privation, showing us the silt at the bottom of the pond, complex and mutable but always silent, caught in the mesh of this ill-fated social milieu. Like a spectacular chariot of war, this system rolls on, crushing one generation after another.
Outside the Outer Ring Road - Li Xiaofei Solo Exhibition
Museum Director: Qiao Wei
Exhibition Coordinator: Wang Chen
Opening: Sep 10th, 2017 at 2pm
Exhibition Date: Sep 10th - Oct 10, 2017
Venue: XinQiao Art Museum, No.193, 255 Lane, SiZhuan South Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai, CHINA
In the course of the building of Chinese cities, the establishment of the main traffic arteries greatly influences the development of various districts. In the process of expanding, many cities build ring roads: First Ring Road, Second Ring Road, Third Ring Road, Fourth Ring Road, Inner Ring Road, Middle Ring Road, Outer Ring Road and so on. The massive city unfolds at at an unbelievable speed. Through this process of urbanization, the ring roads draw the suburbs back into the fold of the city and its systems. At the same time, new industrial parks are continuously being extruded. In Shanghai, this city of exorbitantly priced real estate developing at breakneck pace, has seen the industrial activities moved from the city center to beyond the outer ring roads—the remote corners of the city. Most of the works in Li Xiaofei’s “Assembly Line Project” series are shot in these peripheral areas exploring the living conditions and the environmental situation of these marginal zones. Concern for others is a human imperative, but such helplessness and sorrow. These works sift through the details to reveal this state of privation, showing us the silt at the bottom of the pond, complex and mutable but always silent, caught in the mesh of this ill-fated social milieu. Like a spectacular chariot of war, this system rolls on, crushing one generation after another.
