ShanghART Gallery 香格纳画廊
中文

Mending the Sky
LIANG SHAOJI 梁绍基
2009 ~ 2011
single-channel video
video (color, sound), mirror shards, silk, cocoon
装置 Installation for display approx. 6(H)*3*3m | 录像 5 minutes 43 seconds
Edition of 8 + 2AP
LSJ_0734

Materials: Natural silk, mirror shards, video projection (5 minutes 43 seconds)
Silkworms spinning silk on fragments of blue sky reflected on the broken mirrors they sit upon, their endless strands of silk spun in the figure of 8 resembling clouds and stitches that slowly but surely sew them together. As the pieces of mirrors on the floor reflect the film projection on to the walls around it, the silkworms seem to be undertaking the cosmic task of mending and bridging the azure skies that hang above all of humanity.

Detail pictures:

Installation view
Stills of video part

Related Exhibitions:
Liang Shaoji: Sea of the Cloud, Sea World Culture & Arts Center, Shenzhen 03.24, 2024 -06.26, 2024
Poesie of Illusions, UCCA Lab, Beijing 04.20, 2023 -05.15, 2023
Liang Shaoji: A Silky Entanglement, Power Station of Art, Shanghai 09.28, 2021 -02.20, 2022
"Good" Told by the Nature, Boxes Art Museum, Foshan 07.19, 2019 -09.15, 2019
Return: 1st Diaoyu Fortress International New Media Art Festival, Hechuan, Chongqing 11.04, 2017 -12.04, 2017
Back to Origin: Liang Shaoji, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai 09.26, 2014 -10.30, 2014
Lightness, Hive Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing 04.06, 2013 -05.06, 2013


Collections
Power Station of Art


Related Works:
Mending the Sky (installation)
Mending the Sky