Li Ji Kai

Box, 2009
Fiber Resin, 51 cm

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About the artwork

In Li Ji Kai's sculpture titled "Box", the heavy-lidded eyes depict a mind sluggish from inactivity and laden with the mark of capitalism. They are indeed dreaming as their incapabilities cannot sustain a bright future. As in all of Li's sculptures and paintings, the protagonist boy is well-dressed, illustrating his affluent Chinese parents showering their only offspring with excessive luxuries that the children see as their birth right to receive. The box represents the world in which the new generation is living - well provided and without the need to struggle for anything, having a lack of exposure to the difficulties of the real world that their ancestors faced to come thus far.



About the artist

Li Ji Kai born in Chengdu, Sichuan, 1975, insightfully explores the effects of the social illness plaguing today's China. Through the physical manifestations of young Chinese boys in sculptures and paintings, Li illustrates their disengagement with their environment and the preoccupied self-indulgence that he observes in their daily lives. Li's works have been exhibited throughout China since 2002 in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hubei and Guangzhou, as well as the "Path -China-France Exhibition" in Paris in 2004. He often covers historic and political happenings including the issue of Chinese youth goading each other towards ideological fervour and joining Red Guard groups to unleash Mao's brand of political terror during the Cultural Revolution, the post-revolution generation was pampered with consumerism, technology and filled with individualistic desires. 

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