展览 Exhibition｜吕连涛：跳进泥沼 Jumping into the mire
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Where are you
2021年，87*57*20cm*2件，
PC主机，显示器，亚克力玻璃，铝制框架，
黄铜铸造，步进电机，眼球追踪仪
Where are you
2021, 87*57*20cm*2pcs,
PC host, Monitor, Acrylic glass, Aluminum frame,
Brass casting, Stepper motor, Eye tracker
请以如下方式使用这件作品：1. 笔直站立在作品前1米处；2. 注视镜中的形象；3. 缓慢移动眼球，时刻留意镜面的划痕；4. 试着停下目光，凝视任意一点（ps. 等待，等待，请多一点耐心）。
Please use this work in the following ways: 1. stand straight up to 1 metre in front of the work; 2. look at the image in the mirror; 3. move your eyes slowly, always aware of the scratches on the mirror surface; 4. try to stop and stare at any point (ps. wait, wait, please be more patient).
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不要离开我
2021年，尺寸数量可变，
黄铜铸造，机械臂，AI人脸识别，摄像头，聚光灯
Don't Leave Me
2021, Size quantity variable,
Brass casting, Mechanical arm, AI face recognition, Camera, Spotlight
45度角笔直耸立的机械臂上长出金色的手掌。我的律令是：来到我的领域，就会俘获这金色的光芒。最忠实的信徒还是最顽皮的儿童？鼓起你的勇气，直视我！让我轻抚你的视网膜。
Golden palms sprout from mechanical arms that tower straight up at a 45 degree angle. My decree is: come into my domain and capture this golden light. Most faithful believer or most mischievous child? Summon up your courage and look me straight in the eye! Let me caress your retinas.
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嘘！
2021年，尺寸数量可变，
黄铜铸造 电机
Hush!
2021, Size quantity variable,
Cast brass, Motor
一个个敲击着的手指，是文字间下意识抽动的逗号。“请过来，不要紧张。”
These tapping fingers is are subconsciously twitching commas between words. "Come here, please, don't be nervous."
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临时关系
2021年，尺寸数量可变，
黄铜胎镀金珐琅彩，锆石镶嵌，3D打印，舵机，UWB定位技术
The Interim Relationship
2021, Quantity Dimensions variable,
Gilded enamel on brass, Zirconia inlay, 3D printing, Servo UWB positioning technology
想拥有万众瞩目的体验吗？只需拿起面前的权杖，无论走到哪里，你都是世界的中心。
Want to have the experience of being in the limelight? Just pick up the sceptre in front of you and wherever you go, you're the centre of the world.
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戏
2020年，尺寸数量可变，
椅子，电机
A play
2020, Size quantity variable,
Chair, Motor
苍白的纪念碑式台面上，一把以极高频率颤动的椅子取代了本应出现在这里的崇高雕像。宏大叙事的意义崩解，艺术家试图通过这滑稽荒诞的场景来呈现我们坐立难安的状态。
On the pale, monumental countertop, a chair that twitches with great frequency replaces the sublime statue that should be there. The meaning of the grand narrative disintegrates as the artist attempts to present us sitting still through this comically absurd scene.
2020
2020年，30*20*70cm，
黄铜铸造，电机
2020
2020, 30*20*70cm,
Brass casting, Motor
艺术家将自己的腿通过3D扫描制作出来，铸铜的右腿反复踢打着墙壁，发出一声声闷响。脚尖锤击着墙壁，留下“sorry”字样。这是例外状态下徒劳的挣扎，不知所措的倔强和执拗。一个显而易见的问题：一条腿到底多久才能踢倒这一堵高墙。
The artist has created a 3D scan of his own leg, and the cast bronze right leg kicking and punching the wall repeatedly with a muffled sound. The toe of the foot hammers against the wall, leaving the word "sorry" in its mark. It is a futile struggle in a state of exception, overwhelmed with stubbornness and obstinacy. An obvious question: how long does it take for one leg to kick down this wall.
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我愿意我不愿意
2021年，210*120*30cm，
丝网印刷，翻页钟表片，电机，木头
I Do / I Don't
2021, 210*120*30cm,
Silk screen printing, Flip page clock piece, Motor Wood
无数个翻页高速转动，形成充满迷幻感的动态效果。黑色扇叶上用白色描绘出艺术家的嘴：朝向空间外的立面不断重复着「我愿意」的口型，而向内的一面则在说出相反的内容。但无论是虚与委蛇的接受还是义正言辞的拒绝，都被这黑色矩阵所吞噬，只剩杂乱的虚无之声。
Numerous flaps turn at high speed, creating a psychedelic and dynamic effect. The artist's mouth is depicted in white on the black fan leaves: the façade facing outwards repeats the 'I do' mantra, while the side facing inwards is saying the opposite. But whether it is a false acceptance or a righteous refusal, it is swallowed up by the black matrix, leaving only a jumbled sound of nothingness.
吕连涛
段少锋
Lv Liantao
Born in Hebei in 1987, Lv received his B.F.A. degree from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013 and his M.F.A. degree from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2019, and now lives and works in Beijing.
Lv Liantao continues to focus on the creation of mechanical and interactive installations, constantly searching for the possibility of using machines to explain the complex relationship between man and society, and asking the contemporary meaning of the old proposition "Man a Machine". Using machinery as a medium, the artist seeks to reveal the imperceptible human consciousness and behaviour, thus revealing the absurd dialectic between the "prosthetic" nature of equipment and the digital control of the Cyber Age. In his works, human beings (whether natural human organs or abstract social symbols) are often transformed into machines, and in the repetitive, clumsy and comical mechanical movements, the nature and truth of human beings and society are revealed. His works convey a calm and restrained, yet stubborn and obstinate style, and draw the viewer in with a treacherous pose, inviting people together to think and answer the questions presented in the works.
Some of his exhibitions：“Good News & Bad News”,798 Art Center，Beijing(2020);“Futurology of Art”，Art Gallery of Guangming Culture and Art Center，Shenzhen(2020);“The Epoch Of Robo-Sapiens Art”，OCT Art&Design Gallery，Shenzhen(2020);“Undefined Future”，United Art Museum，Wuhan(2019);“QI Project”Lv Liantao Project，PLATE-SPACE，Beijing(2019);“Man-Machine Art Plan（2）”，Beijing Contemporary Art Museum，Beijing(2019);“International Sculpture Exhibition”，Shenzhen (Pingshan),(2018);“Art Beijing”，China Agricultural Exhibition Hall，Beijing(2017);“Man-Machine Art Plan” ，NO SPACE，Beijing(2017);“Ivy Art Project 2016 China Young Artists' Exhibition”，Tianjin Art Museum，Tianjin(2016);“This is a lie”，NO SPACE，Beijing(2015);“Once Meet”，C5 Art，Beijing(2014)
Duan Shaofeng
Curator, freelance writer, currently living and working in Beijing. He was a member of the AAC Art China jury in 2014 and received the SAP Art Driving People Award in 2020. He has long been involved in exhibition and forum planning, editing and writing.
Some of the exhibitions he has curated so far are：“Discovery: New Youth Video Exhibition”CAFA、Today Art Museum、CAFA Art Museum、Star Gallery，(2012);“Hou Sha Yu Era The Hidden Moving Image” Yan Huang Art Museum，(2014);“Coming out of the closet：One Exorcism Ceremony”BTAP，(2014);“Look!Look!：Hua Jiadi Biennale”,Hua Jiadi Community , Beijing;“The Model of The World：Zhangzhou International Contemporary Art Exhibition”Zhangzhou Museum，(2017);“Unspoken Understanding”eslite spectrum suzhou，Suzhou, (2017);“Undefined Future”，United Art Museum，Wuhan(2019);“Andy’s Joke”，AC Gallery, Beijing ;“Good News & Bad News”798 Art Center，Beijing(2020);“The Fourth Generation Image&Medium, ect.