Eleven videos and sporadic accoutrements litter the floor of this exhibition by the emerging artist Li Ming. A television, cast in the bushes outside the gallery entrance, screens Back Garden, 2008, in which security guards, recurring characters in the artist’s vignettes, romp around the gardens of a residential compound in unintelligible acts of “play.”
Read the full review in Artforum Online’s archive, and at Lee Ambrozy’s blog Sinopop.
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Artforum: Li Ming’s “XX” at Platform China
Artforum Online has a review by Lee Ambrozy of Li Ming’s exhibition “XX,” still showing through December 27 at Platform China, Beijing.
From the review:
Eleven videos and sporadic accoutrements litter the floor of this exhibition by the emerging artist Li Ming. A television, cast in the bushes outside the gallery entrance, screens Back Garden, 2008, in which security guards, recurring characters in the artist’s vignettes, romp around the gardens of a residential compound in unintelligible acts of “play.”
Read the full review in Artforum Online’s archive, and at Lee Ambrozy’s blog Sinopop.