LI Laio李燎
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“communal participation” to practicing what he preaches in micro-level social systems and under concrete circumstances. In this process, he also observes and questions the evaluation mechanisms and rules for family production, social production and artistic production and attempts to provide a set of playful strategies to deal with stress, thus evoking a rethinking of experience.Li Liao (b. 1982, Honghu, Hubei Province, China) currently lives and works in Shenzhen, China.. He received his BFA in Oil Painting at Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in 2005. Recent solo exhibitions include Anacatesthesia, QiAO SPACE, Shanghai, China (2020); To Be A Better Man, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2019); “Art is Vacuum”, WHITE SPACE BEIJING, Beijing, China (2016). Recent group exhibitions include On Behalf of, QIAO SPACE, Shanghai, China (2021); Meditations in an Emergency, UCCA, Beijing, China (2020); Museum, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) , Frankfurt, Germany (2019); The Street: Where The World Is Made, Mo.Co.Panacée, Montpellier, France; National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy (2018-2019); The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta, Times Art Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2018); Performing Dramas, Centre National d’art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2017); Dragon Liver Phoenix Brain, OCAT, Shanghai, China (2016); What About the Art? Contemporary Art from China, Qatar Museums Gallery Al Riwaq, Doha, Qatar (2016); Habits and Customs of ____ Are So Different from Ours That We Visit Them with The Same Sentiment That We Visit Exhibitions, Kadist Art Foundation Paris, Paris, France (2016); The 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia (2015); Surround Audience, New Museum, New York, USA (2015).
Since 2020, Li Liao transforms himself into an institution and initiate the “Fortune Exhibition of Li’s Family House”, in which Fengshui masters act as curators and guest artists create commissioned works.
通過那些基於日常的半虛構式自傳體創作，李燎的實踐常常將真實境遇與藝術行為混為一談。通過時常頗具寓言意味和自嘲式的行動策路，他主動設局或因勢利導，踐行著對社會現實問題的關注，並將“社會介入”落實到微觀社會系統及具體條件下的身體力行，對家庭生產、社會生產及藝術生產的評價機制及規則進行觀察與質疑，並嘗試提供一套應對壓力的戲謔策路，由此引發經驗上的再認識。
李燎，1982 年生於湖北洪湖，現生活和工作在深圳。 2005 年畢業於湖北美術學院油畫系。近期的個展包括：近鄉情怯，喬空間，上海，中國（2020)；做更好的人，空白空間，北京，中國（2019); “藝術是真空”，空白空間，北京，中國（2016)。近期的群展包括：代表作，喬空間，上海，中國（2021)；緊急中的沉思，UCCA 尤倫斯當代藝術中心，北京，中國（2020)；美術館，現代藝術博物館（ MMK)，法蘭克福，德國(2019); The Street:
Where The World Is Made, Mo.Co.Panacee， 蒙彼利埃，法國；羅馬國立 21 世紀美術館，羅馬，意大利 （2018-2019)；影像三角志：珠江三角洲的錄像藝術，時代藝術中心 (柏林)，柏林，德國（2018)；展演劇場，蓬皮杜國家藝術文化中心，巴黎，法國；上海 K11chi 美術館，上海，中國（2017)：龍肝鳳腦，OCAT 上海館，上海，中國（2016)；藝術怎麼樣？來自中國的當代藝術，卡塔爾多哈阿爾里瓦克 （ Al Riwaq ) 展覽館，多哈，卡塔爾(2016); 的風俗習慣與我們如此不同，觀看他們所得到的感受如同在觀看展覽，卡蒂斯特藝術基金會，巴黎，法國（2016)；第三屆烏拉爾當代藝術工業雙年展，葉卡特琳堡，俄羅斯（2015);Surround Audience， 紐約新美術館，紐約，美國（2015)。自2020 年開始，李燒將自身個體化作機構，通過邀請風水師擔任策展人以及委任其它藝術家創作的方式，主辦了以“李氏家宅鴻運展“為名的多次展覽項目。
