Li Hanwei
Economic Zone
2022
Foam, resin, wood, metal, acrylic, UV printing, fabric fiber, LED light, ready-made models, paper, oil paint, acrylic, lacquer, rubber
Dimensions variable
Economic Zone is located on a lawn outside MadeIn Art Museum, comprising about thirty tents, large and small, real and fake. The content of the tents consists of products, tools, advertisements, as well as their constituent information and raw materials. Each tent has an individual theme, but their respective information overflows into a whole on the lawn, each vying for attention. By fitting them together in a fierce, blind fashion, I hope to sort out an intricate genealogy of network relations, thereby presenting our judgments and attitudes towards health, people, ecology, and tools.
About Li Hanwei:
Born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province in 1994, Li Hanwei graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts in 2018, and currently lives and works in Shanghai. Li’s practice is based on adapting forms of commercial advertisements and films as metaphors. Through the study of communication methods, the artist uses CG images to establish a worldview in the fictional world where counterfeit of the real world and science-fiction coexist, as a way to present the intersection of contemporary cultural forms and individual identities.