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Liu Wei

Weile Wangque de Jinian

Documentaire | dv | couleur | 12:50 | Chine | 2009

That is a memory of my sophomore year of 1989, the year when I almost got killed. I don¡¯t feel lucky for my survival, but a strong feeling of sadness for myself, because of my inability to do something in the face of the dead. Twenty years have passed. Mother¡¯s hair has turned gray; beloved ones have dried up the tears. Glorious as forever on this first street of China, silence prevails. Silence, forgetting and deliberate covering, people¡¯s memory turns into a vacuum. The bygones twisted into a blurred picture, true memory gone, illusion remains. that memory makes us more helpless as the time passes by. Remaining silent in the face of reality witnesses our hypocrisy and weakness. Silence, forgetting and deliberate covering, people¡¯s memory turns into a vacuum. The bygones twisted into a blurred picture, true memory gone, illusion remains.

Liu Wei is an independent artist living and working in Beijing. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of China Central Academy of Drama and completed his studies at the Symposium on the Relationship between Religion and Culture, hosted by the Beijing University. His works are closely related to personal experience and memory, as well as the reality and rapidly changing history of contemporary China. ¡°Memory¡± is the main subject for his creation of art works, for it connects history at one end while reality at the other end in the clue of memory. Therefore in his works we can find such kind of realistic significance. He¡¯s works have been exhibited at many art institutions internationally including at ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe; the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Nasher Museum of Art in U.S, WRO Art Center in Poland, Mus¨¦e Fabre in Montpellier, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Taipei Fine Art Museum, The Centre of Contemporary Art Palau de la Virreina in Barcelona, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and The Guangdong Museum of Art China etc.