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Born in 1986 in Hubei province, the son of a painter, Li Ran is an artist currently focused on video and performance art. A graduate of Sichuan Fine Arts Academy, he is now based in Beijing. His work has been shown recently at AIKE Dellarco<\/a> gallery (Shanghai), the Goethe Institut<\/a> (Shanghai) and in Beijing at experimental gallery Magician Space<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was young, I thought that \u201cartist\u201d meant \u201cpainter,\u201d and I came to think of myself as a painter rather than an artist. Until about three years ago, I was still painting, and gallerists keep asking me about it. I tell them that I want to, but that it doesn\u2019t really fit my ideas at the moment. I use detailed concepts \u2014 writing and imagination are a big part of my process; I need to work out clearly what my work will be like before I try to start shooting. I write a script \u2014 it\u2019s very important to say what I\u2019m thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Li Ran at his home in Beijing, June 2013.
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I don\u2019t think my generation of artists have any special feeling, as if it\u2019s different for us, or something. I think that those working in the 1990s like Ai Weiwei and Wang Xingwei faced the same issues and questions as we do. I don\u2019t think the Chinese context has changed dramatically. Although now, there are galleries and art magazines \u2014 structures that were not there before. In my Father\u2019s day, an artist might have one or two exhibitions in their whole life. Recently, I have always been working to a date for an exhibition. The work is then related to an exhibition, and is very \u201cclosed.\u201d I think a lot of artists nowadays are like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Li Ran, \u201cMont Sainte-Victoire\u201d, performance\/video, 2012
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Once I was speaking to a South African artist about the systems for contemporary art in China, Africa and Asia. Afterwards, I heard him say to a curator \u201cYou know what, Chinese artists are thinking!\u201d I thought, \u201cWeren\u2019t we thinking before?!\u201d I was shocked, but now I feel that perhaps he was right. A lot of Chinese art works appear very grand, but at the level of actual knowledge, there is nothing. It\u2019s not all about artists \u2014 knowledge production is to do with relationships. It\u2019s very difficult to transfer knowledge, because it seems there is a disconnection between curators, writers, artists, galleries and museums. I would like for different people to work together on exhibitions, to transform knowledge. I feel that a lot of artists \u2014 good artists \u2014 of my generation are lonely. Sometimes I am, too. We can\u2019t communicate, and in exhibitions the work sometimes looks as if it\u2019s alone, like a person just standing there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When people talk about Chinese art, there is one word in their minds: MARKET. They are very interested in it, asking me whether I cooperate with galleries and how much I can make in a year. I joke with them, saying \u201cI\u2019ll pay for this, and this. I\u2019m a fucking Chinese artist!\u201d In terms of the audience, when I am working I try to focus my mind rather than imagine one \u2014 it\u2019s not real. I see a lot of art works which assume people are stupid. But you cannot know what they are thinking. A lot of people are very smart \u2014 smarter than me. Collectors, too, can be more like curators, sometimes \u2014 they are thinking! But what I do is about individual things and experiences. I do not know this nation\u2019s experience, I just know my own. But how do I look at it, how do I think? I just do it my own way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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