In his works, Li Hui creates unreal situations that have a dreamlike quality. In the exhibition room, the visitor is temporarily and randomly surrounded by a cage made of laser beams. Hui uses the cage, which encloses but does not harm the visitor, to explore individual boundaries and demonstrate how people are influenced by purely optical – though physically irrelevant – barriers. Visitors are confronted with both a liminal and a powerful visual aesthetic experience. The installation not only makes the visitor “inside the cage” examine his or her feelings, the “outside” observers, too, can watch the experiment and behavior of “those trapped inside.”
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“The fusion of art and technology has to reveal a truth about humanity,” says the artist who makes ingenious use of the most advanced technology to create impressive works of art.
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https://scheringstiftung.de/en/projektraum/li-hui-cage/ (13.09.2022)