“Li Shun: Re-de-coding”

Ginkgo Space is pleased to announce that Li Shun's second solo exhibition at Ginkgo Space, "Re-de-coding", will open on 7th December in Shenzhen. This solo exhibition will present different series of works created in parallel by the artist, especially his latest masterpieces that transform from "writing" to "painting" with fragments of light.

Li Shun's works in recent years are always presented in the form of "fragments", which are "broken chapters" with overlapping meanings. The "fracture" in his works is reflected in two aspects: in terms of creation, whether he mimics classic Chinese calligraphy and painting with light marks or paints images on the page, the material is extracted from their original coherent whole, to complete the visual restructuring; in terms of the content of his works, the literary books he uses as the background of the picture, or the images downloaded from the Internet, are not only fragments floating in the virtual world, but also classics that are constantly transmitted and extended. The reassembled fragments produce new ideas because of the interweaving and dislocation of meanings. The fragments in Li Shun's works not only correspond to the fragmental information of the Internet era, but also his way of responding to the traditional changes - art, words and events, once out of the original context, will inevitably become constantly distorted and interpreted---everyone interprets and transmits it in their own perspective. In the new artworks, Li Shun shows the imagination and possibility of the change of tradition and reality from a big historical perspective.

Li Shun was born in Xuzhou, China in 1988. He received his bachelor's and Master's degrees from the School of Transmedia Art of China Academy of Art. He now lives and works in Hangzhou. Li Shun's works have been exhibited by Guangdong Art Museum, White Rabbit Contemporary Art Museum in Australia, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo University of the Arts Art Museum, How Art Museum in Shanghai, Long Museum in Shanghai, Tichy Ocean Foundation in Switzerland, Chengdu Zhi Art Museum, Beijing Exhibition Center, Zhejiang Art Museum, Serbia Bell Art Museum, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, and Charles E.Sinn Library of Connecticut College. He has been shortlisted for the SOVEREIGN Outstanding Asian Art Award 2023, selected for the Annual List of Chinese Photography in 2020, the TOP20 Chinese Contemporary Photography Awards in 2021 and 2017, and was nominated for the 2020 Jimei Arles Discovery Award and the Silver Award for the opening exhibition of the Beijing Minsheng Modern Art Museum in 2015. Recent solo exhibitions: "Re-de-coding" (Ginkgo Space Shenzhen, 2024), "Mountain and Sea" (How Art Museum, Shanghai, 2024), "Mountain and Sea Flow" (Ginkgo Space Shanghai, 2023), "Capture the Light" (Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, 2023).

（Article/Poster Design Liang Qing）