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About the artwork
Seated under the shelter of a larger-than-life toadstool, Li Ji Kai's recurring character of a boy props his head up with one arm and appears to be deep in thought. What could it be that he is dreaming or thinking of? The audience is left to wonder at this scene, reminiscent of a fairy tale illustration.
About the artist
Li Ji Kai born in Chengdu, Sichuan, 1975, insightfully explores the effects of the social illness plaguing today's China. Through the physical manifestations of young Chinese boys in sculptures and paintings, Li illustrates their disengagement with their environment and the preoccupied self-indulgence that he observes in their daily lives.
Li's works have been exhibited throughout China since 2002 in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hubei and Guangzhou, as well as the "Path -China-France Exhibition" in Paris in 2004.
He often covers historic and political happenings including the issue of Chinese youth goading each other towards ideological fervour and joining Red Guard groups to unleash Mao's brand of political terror during the Cultural Revolution, the post-revolution generation was pampered with consumerism, technology and filled with individualistic desires.