Li Haibing

Li Haibing

China

 

Li Haibing is a professor of Fashion Art Design Department at Hubei Institute of Fine Arts (HIFA), where he advises graduate students, and also serves as the head of the Wearable Art Laboratory and the Fiber Art New Media Laboratory and director of Idea Fashion Arts Center, a key research institute of humanities and social sciences in universities in Hubei Province. His other professional appointments include being a member of China Artists Association, Academic Director of the Academic Committee of China Fashion Association, judge of China Fashion Week, and China Ministry of Education Visiting Scholar to Italy. Li is known as a designer, interdisciplinary artist, and curator.

Li has long been engaged in fashion art education and research in Han opera costumes, digital communication, fiber art, and wearable art. Deeply committed to the preservation of and innovation in Jingchu culture and Han opera costumes, Li's research and practice examine the creative transformation that digital technology produces in traditional culture, future artistic practices, wearable art, and aesthetic communication.

Wonders No.1

Artificial leather, faux fur, zippers, fabric from ready-made clothes, acrylic ball

180x180x180cm

2018

 

Things are always in a state of relative contradiction, at times proving themselves and at others refuting themselves. We use clothes to cover our body, making them both an extension of our body and a constituent of our being. They are a vessel of our soul and a manifestation of our identity. Through cutting old clothes, splicing and transforming them into ambiguous shapes, this work attempts to deconstruct and demolish the original state of clothes and reconstruct them into new expressions.

The materials for the work are the donation of worn, everyday clothes from several families. As symbols of human civilization and markers of the times, rags and clothing fabric embody the relationship between the artistic and the quotidian, the atmosphere and memory of urban cultures, and the material and cultural histories in the anthropological sense. The changes in urban and cultural landscapes are tied together with the characteristic changes of society. Being in the constantly renewing present, this work hopes to break away from the reference of concrete representations of reality and express the perception and position of the present in a continuously conceptual and abstract way.

Wonders No.1

Artificial leather, faux fur, zippers, fabric from ready-made clothes, acrylic ball

180x180x180cm

2018

 

Things are always in a state of relative contradiction, at times proving themselves and at others refuting themselves. We use clothes to cover our body, making them both an extension of our body and a constituent of our being. They are a vessel of our soul and a manifestation of our identity. Through cutting old clothes, splicing and transforming them into ambiguous shapes, this work attempts to deconstruct and demolish the original state of clothes and reconstruct them into new expressions.

The materials for the work are the donation of worn, everyday clothes from several families. As symbols of human civilization and markers of the times, rags and clothing fabric embody the relationship between the artistic and the quotidian, the atmosphere and memory of urban cultures, and the material and cultural histories in the anthropological sense. The changes in urban and cultural landscapes are tied together with the characteristic changes of society. Being in the constantly renewing present, this work hopes to break away from the reference of concrete representations of reality and express the perception and position of the present in a continuously conceptual and abstract way.

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