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© ANQI LI


Seventh continent (2019)

Connection, as a universal social element, runs through everyone's life. Our connection, alienation, or intimacy with ourselves, with others, and with the outside world.
Due to the development of science and technology in today's society, human beings are gradually being replaced by machines. As Marx proved, man and his body are commoditized. Everything in capitalism can become a commodity. People gradually become alienated from themselves and the world, and eventually become commodities to be consumed. Kafka also mentioned in his Metamorphosis that Gregor turned into a beetle. With such an inappropriate materialized image, he felt a strong sense of powerlessness and no sense of belonging in society.
So nowadays, with the rapid development of the network, the big explosion of information has greatly changed people's view of "connection". Tense, cramped, unstable, virtual, and real
The rapid interlacing together constitutes the present context.
But the strong opposition in things gives me great inspiration in the creative approach.








@Chengdu contemporary image museum, 2021