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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.”
 

Li Ming is a sophisticated type of contemporary flâneur. He takes possession of the space that is in turn defined by a human presence (i.e., by the bodily-physical presence of an aware human being), roaming in it and throughout it. He enjoys chasing spaces, but also words and concepts.

After over twenty years of making video, Zhang Peili had himself become a figure of authority without meaning to.