LIU CHENGRUI
Liu Chengrui (Guazi) was born in Qinghai Province in 1983. He graduated from Qinghai Normal University with a degree in Fine Arts in 2005, and currently lives and works in Beijing. His practice covers live performances, durational performances, videos and writings. Live performances (or on-site performances) highlight the intense degree of repetition of certain behaviors in a particular setting. Durational performances often explore the relationships among people established for art-related purposes, regardless of any potential cultural inequalities. Maintaining this relationship with people, the artist manages to influence their life paths and social characters. Most of the artist’s durational performances last for a lifetime. The artist’s video work often employes pasture landscape as backgrounds to invoke the absurdity and poetic qualities of human beings situated in such a surrealistic atmosphere.
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