Madein Museum, Shanghai (2022)

We Borrow Dreams From Others, Like Debt

Group Exhibition

The Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art of China - Li Li Ren

Curator: Sun Qidong

Venue: Madein Museum, Shanghai (2022)

Against a backdrop of alternating seasons, a pressing present, and a boundless space, “We Borrow Dreams From Others, Like Debt” raises dual questions to the homogenization resulting from an increasingly intensive algorithmic thinking and to the past global art scene dominated by the West. It initiates a rediscovery of the art display system.

Works by thirteen artists will occupy the indoor and outdoor spaces of MadeIn Art Museum, exhibiting the urgency of renewing identity politics, aesthetic system, and other avant-garde legacies. The impermanence of the exhibition and the geological deep time symbolized by the desolation outside the gallery halls, far from conflicting with each other, work in unison to invest the works and images on display with a fluidity and intensity of existence that would be unat- tainable in a white box space: here they come to life.

I experience everyday objects by observing them in their state of being with people and nature. They are owned, used, worn, abandoned, mended and passed on, and in their various states, they carry and conceal a variety of desires and secrets that intrigue me.

-Li Li Ren