“Biological Environment Production” is one of Li Shan’s “Biotic and Abiotic” series. It is an in situ installation work specially created for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei. The wings of 20,000 dragonflies cover the outer walls of the entire building, forming a peculiar environmental landscape and visual experience. Li Shan deliberately took the entire museum as an installation piece in thinking and presentation. Affixing a large quantity of micro-marks of the natural organism (dragonfly wings) onto a large object of human civilization (the body of the museum building), he allowed the audience to observe, ponder, and define the many possibilities of harmonious interaction of conflict and contradiction that exist in this particular conversation.
Source:MOCA Taipei www.mocataipei.org.tw
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