randian | 燃点

People crowd the raft of empty Coke cans and Pepsi bottles. Tourists, clubbers, musicians, students, sun bathers. Protestors are matched with actors, mendicants with diners, a photographer and his model with a mugger and his victim. The flag is red, the sky is grey, but unlike Delacroix’s “original”, there is no ship on the horizon, blind or otherwise.

I intend to speak of forms changed into new entities —Ovid, Metamorphoses

Martin Wong was a storyteller, often prefacing descriptions of his works with quips like “There’s a long story to this painting,” before going into versions of his autobiographical account of the details behind the scenes he’d craft.

In an email, Liao wrote, “The major factor that drives my practice is existential bewilderment about the self and the outside world.

“It all feels like a previous life now, as if that Tang Zhigang doesn’t have much to do with who I am today.”

A similar trance-poetics is evident in the films of James Benning, who, as Stein did in literature, achieves a temporalization of space and a spatialization of time.

(中文) 色彩、笔触等不再因现实的物象而变化，它们所遵循的是李易纹个人创造的绘画逻辑。

“We run an art magazine and a photography agency, but we aren’t journalists…The magazine is a platform for our artistic practice, for our friends, and for people who interest us.”