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WHITE SPACE BEIJING is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Li Shurui "The Shelter: All Fears Come from the Unknown Shimmering at the Edge of the World"will open on May 5th, 2012. It will show her latest large space painting installation (6 meters high, made up by 104 pieces of paintings) under the same name. As the exhibition title suggests, this new piece tries to fully present the many characteristics of Li Shurui's art practice, and will particularly be an important breakthrough in the practice of the concept of space.
Li Shurui has started to work on "light"-themed series since 2005. These visual illusion planes constructed with air-brushed color spots remind viewers of a way of life of the subculture, and the phrase "choose the lighter task" could vaguely express the life experience related to this visual effect. However, when the body shrinks inwardly into the dimension of flesh, its freedom obtains an unprecedented assertion, achieving a reversed self-recognition. Therefore, the vision in Li Shurui's art is not only an optical characterization reflected on the retinas, but also something drifting in the endless void external world, connected to desire and destination.
Li Shurui was born in 1981 in Chongqing, Sichuan Province and graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2004. Currently lives and works in Beijing.
