He Liping
Whoever Buys My Work Goes To Heaven
2013
Mix-media
After Party A purchases this work from Party B, B will pray for A once a day for the next 30 years and courrier a greeting card with blessings to A every day. The work by B is the prayer service and the greeting cards sent during these 30 years. Through this work the artist wants to establish a frequent and lasting connection with a person. After thirty long years of writing, it will bear a message and memory of our time.
About He Liping:
He Liping was born in Sichuan in 1983 and graduated from the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Conservatory of Music in 2007. He graduated from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2015 with a master’s degree and now lives and works in Chengdu. Since 2003, he mainly works with live art, video and installation. His works are closely related to daily life, and he excels at presenting the zeitgeist by capturing neglected objects and emotions in daily life. His works have been acquired by a number of institutions and he has held multiple solo and group exhibitions at A4 Art Museum, Xie Zilong Image Art Museum and Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, etc.