Li Xiaofei
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Texts
- A Bar of Chocolate
- A King Crab
- About Assembly Line
- About Li Xiaofei’s “New York in Spring,” series
- Assembly Line – No. 11
- Assembly Line Foreign Boss, Video, 09”46′, 2010
- Assembly Line, 2012
- Assembly Line—No.30
- Li Xiaofei 2
- “A Packet of Salt,” audio, color, HD, PAL, 07’23”, Chinese, English subtitles, 2013
Exhibitions
- Crabs and Chocolate : Li Xiaofei Solo ShowFebruary 22nd, 2014 - March 26th, 2014
- Follies of a Species
November 9th, 2013 - December 21st, 2013 - Learning from the Literati 4
September 14th, 2013 - October 29th, 2013 - Learning from the Literati 3
September 5th, 2012 - October 10th, 2012 - Assembly Line : Li Xiaofei Solo ExhibitionJuly 28th, 2012 - September 3rd, 2012
- Forgotten PlacesNovember 26th, 2011 - January 7th, 2012
- Collective Consciousness August 6th, 2011 - August 30th, 2011
- Catalogue Essay
About Assembly Line
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Assembly lines are repetitive, constant, mechanical, uncreative and lack emotions.
It’s a production method that kills creativity and passion.
It’s efficient, fast and maximizes production.
It doesn’t allow for differences and assimilates everything and everybody.
2
The factories I shot are brimming with a surprising collective romanticism.
Assembly lines, large or small, uphold social systems and maintain a surface appearance of order.
Machines or people constantly repeat the exact same movements.
There is a constant rotation of various different machine parts.
This movement exhibits the beauty and power of sequence and order.
The “People”, assimilated by these machines, are nonetheless working in a cheerful and enjoyable rhythm.
They perform intrinsically as if in formation.
3
This order is constantly being cut up, restructured, transformed and rebuilt into an illusory reality.
Li Xiaofei
