War, aging, and death
are like an iceberg coming straight towards us,
inevitable and inescapable.
Text/Zhao Huaqing
The world is a network of relationships.
Relationships constitute our existence and shape our meaning. As a new generation artist born in the 1990s, Li Erpeng explores the existence of relationships in contemporary times from both the physical and psychological realms through his unique perspective and keen insight.
"Animal No. 5" is a life form created by Li Erpeng, which embodies the coupling of animal instincts, human intelligence, and social norms in today's era. It is a metaphor, a symbol, and an experiment. It is Li Erpeng's observation, taming, and questioning of "relationships." This exhibition presents the observation records of "Animal No. 5" from the perspective of a researcher, observing its growth and extinction, following its desires and driving forces to explore the world of relationships, observing how its subconsciousness condenses and manifests, and how the fear of death emerges and slowly integrates into itself over time.
Born in haste, grow in rage, living in insecurity, rules in fear, aging in resentment, decays in bravely, finally, die in innocently.
Existence itself is not the meaning, but the meaning lies in experiencing relationships in existence: love and sorrow, arrogance and fear, control and discipline, and crystallizing these experiences into a shell. Leading one's own heart and body to calmly enter death.
Life exists constantly in the blink of an eye. Li Erpeng spent five years creating it, watching it interact with the world, and then leading it towards decline. We are all observers of this experiment, and like all relationships, this observation is mutual. In the observation, a part of it converges with us, regenerates, and rises into the world. In this transcendent space, we also become our own experimental animals, constructing the world through self-observation, and embracing death in the moment of forming a relationship with the world.
are like an iceberg coming straight towards us,
inevitable and inescapable.
Text/Zhao Huaqing
The world is a network of relationships.
Relationships constitute our existence and shape our meaning. As a new generation artist born in the 1990s, Li Erpeng explores the existence of relationships in contemporary times from both the physical and psychological realms through his unique perspective and keen insight.
"Animal No. 5" is a life form created by Li Erpeng, which embodies the coupling of animal instincts, human intelligence, and social norms in today's era. It is a metaphor, a symbol, and an experiment. It is Li Erpeng's observation, taming, and questioning of "relationships." This exhibition presents the observation records of "Animal No. 5" from the perspective of a researcher, observing its growth and extinction, following its desires and driving forces to explore the world of relationships, observing how its subconsciousness condenses and manifests, and how the fear of death emerges and slowly integrates into itself over time.
Born in haste, grow in rage, living in insecurity, rules in fear, aging in resentment, decays in bravely, finally, die in innocently.
Existence itself is not the meaning, but the meaning lies in experiencing relationships in existence: love and sorrow, arrogance and fear, control and discipline, and crystallizing these experiences into a shell. Leading one's own heart and body to calmly enter death.
Life exists constantly in the blink of an eye. Li Erpeng spent five years creating it, watching it interact with the world, and then leading it towards decline. We are all observers of this experiment, and like all relationships, this observation is mutual. In the observation, a part of it converges with us, regenerates, and rises into the world. In this transcendent space, we also become our own experimental animals, constructing the world through self-observation, and embracing death in the moment of forming a relationship with the world.
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