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Li Li Ren

LI LI REN

The World Forgetting By The World Forgot Magician Space 18 March–18 July 2026 Beijing
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Li Li Ren has been bidding farewell to language in recent years.

This distance makes her sculptures seem remote—as though they arrive prior to language, earlier even than the notion of “time.” We sense a quiet melancholy in this abandonment of language, of the well-ordered world, and of our recognition of the self.

Let us imagine a world in which “you” and “I” are tightly bound together—a world disregards the chaos in between. Perhaps this marks her first moment of remembrance. In this sense, learning language becomes a mode of forgetting the self.

(How might the pre-linguistic world be elaborated?)

According to Li Li,

Meanings flow according to repeating rhythms,

while lives are composed of shifting matter, supporting and sustaining one another.

As language withdraws, we are once again reminded of the structures and traces of matter—the marks of where matter begins.

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Exhibition view: Li Li Ren, The World Forgetting By The World Forgot, Magician Space (18 March–18 July 2026). Courtesy Magician Space.
Exhibition view: Li Li Ren, The World Forgetting By The World Forgot, Magician Space (18 March–18 July 2026). Courtesy Magician Space.
Exhibition view: Li Li Ren, The World Forgetting By The World Forgot, Magician Space (18 March–18 July 2026). Courtesy Magician Space.

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The Chinese transliteration for magician – ‘mó jīn shí’ has the meaning of sharpening and refining, suggests a kind of reflection and introspection, while the English word ‘magician’ itself means something fantastical and unpredictable, implying further possibilities.

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798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao R.d
Chaoyang District
Beijing
China
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10.30am - 6.30pm
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Beijing Magician Space, 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao R.d
Magician Space contemporary art gallery in Beijing China
Magician Space
798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao R.d, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
+86 10 5978 9635
http://www.magician-space.com

Opening hours
Tuesday - Saturday
10.30am - 6.30pm
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