ART COMPASS – Migrant Bird Space, Gulu, Set of Cards, 2021
39,00 € inkl. 7 % MwSt. & 2,1 % KSK
Selected works by Gulu in high-quality print on 600g cardboard.
Limited edition of 200
Dimensions each card: 21×14.5×1.5 cm
23 pages / 1 text-page / 22 Photo-cards
Published by Migrant Bird Space Management GmbH
In a way, Gulu’s photography has always been forbidden. There has always been a desire amongst artists and photographers to use naked bodies as their subjects, as the perception of the body is universal. The contradictions, and resistance, in such works has always been there. The passion continues to collide until it fades, at the decisive moment of desire and fear, balance and imbalance. Thus, we need to consider the image produced by the camera and its true intention. The “Suddenly Retreating Desire” comes from the fragmented text of Blanchot, and an accidental glance at it has a strong connection with Gulu’s photography. Its critical point is that it is both a creative state and a way of viewing. The card set includes a one-page text on the artist and 22 photocards of his work.
Born in 1983 in China, Li Xiang graduated from Beijing Film Academy, majoring in Film and Television Advertising.
Took up photography in 2008, he initially started focusing on the contemporary Chinese subcultures, the idea of the body as a weapon, and the reality as the foundation of existence, constantly trying to reject definitions and labels. In recent years, Gulu’s goal has been to restore the identity of those who have been “materialised” by society; to do so, he employs different techniques, such as photography, texts, handwork, and painting. In his latest solo exhibition “Suddenly Retreating Desire” Li Xiang encourage young people from all over the world to show their true self in front of the camera. He furthermore reconstructs by hand the reality depicted in the Polaroids taken, breaking the limitations of the square and blurring the boundary between photography and painting. As an artist whose main theme is the body, Gulu argues it is not an object, but the embodiment of emotion; it has nothing to do with beauty and ugliness, nudity is freedom.
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