Last updated 30 Dec 2006

From lijiangstudio team intr. 2006

Luo Fei, Jianghu Plotter and Schemer. A full-time Lijiang Studio member, Luo Fei has coordinated, planned, curated, or made original work in every Jianghu event, as well as managing the Lijiang Studio website, coordinating residency projects, and handling communication. Graduating From Yunnan Art Institute’s printmaking department, Luo Fei Work worked at Nordica gallery before coming to Lijiang Studio. A very active young artist, Luo Fei has also contributed significantly to the documenting art in Yunnan, and connecting Yunnan with other parts of China.

Mao Xuhui’s comments on Luo Fei’s performance, 2004

The works of Luo Fei are self-examination in present living in a serious altitude. His behavior work Incidental Death (the work implementation is recorded by video and pictures). A “dead man” (acted by the artist himself) in white plastic raincoat appeared in some of the places in our daily lives —— at a table in a dinning hall, the stairways of a residential building and suburb railways —— and aroused different reactions of the passerby, in which the measure of humanity was sharply tested and the dominant reactions were disappointed, insensitive and indifferent. Another work of him Puberty has something to do with the urban expansion. In the video, two long shots were used to present the busiest downtown city, contrasted to the dirtiness and chaos in the lateral zones such like jointing part of the city and the countryside. It is actually two unbalanced spheres and the disturbing characteristic of a modern city. This situation is continuing everyday and the distance between the rich and the poverty is expending. The artist expresses his doubt to modern civilization in a brief and stern language. Such kind of doubt has forced him to implement another behavior work more extremely —— he will not use any of the transportation tools to whatever the place he would like to go in the future five years instead of walking. It is an altitude extremely against the modern civilization and the common values. As an undergraduate student, Luo Fei’s inclination in his work is so different from that in the upgrading development. Is it his “unfortunate” or the “unfortunate” of the society? It is not easy to answer. (via TCG Nordica)

Guan Yuda’s comment on Luo Fei’s photography

Luo Fei was born in the early eighties and has spent his entire lives in a world where all manner of erratic and strange images prevail. It could be said that they are the generation truly raised by images. From this perspective, the experiment they are performing with new media and methods on one hand has made up a part of Chinese contemporary art’s transition from ‘language culture’ to ‘visual culture’; on the other hand, the artistic views and attitudes held by this generation of artists towards visual culture and its effects are completely different from those held by the fifty and sixty year old artists who grew up in the ‘language culture’ or ‘script culture’. They represent a new direction in viewing.

Luo Fei’s work Banks of Green Lake Overflowing with Rainin* is a series of conceptual images that express cultural opposition and conflict. She took some random shots of rather poetic scenery around Green Lake Park, which has been dubbed “the eyes of Kunming”, and then made use of digital technology to make them look like the scenery in Song Dynasty illustrated books, added excerpts from Tang and Song poems, Yuan opera and western thinkers such as Michael Foucault and Jacques Derrida to fill the empty spaces. The picture is covered in sperm-like raindrops. Unlike his earlier more western works, this series is filled with a sort of fading, decadent Chinese cultural character.

——Guan Yuda