La Luna y el Hacedor, 2020
At the beginning of the the Covid-19 outbreak, I returned to China from my trip to New Zealand and began a long quarantine alone. We were forced to separate from one another during the outbreak, and I realized how little humans are in the face of nature’s immense power and attempted to be on a state of freedom by imagining.
During the quarantine, I began reading a poetry collection called El Hacedor by Jorge Luis Borges, which inspired me to create this series of images with its poetic dream-like atmosphere. In light of this, I started to review the photos I took before the epidemic in New Zealand, and reconstruct them into a new composite, guided by the illusionary atmosphere portrayed in the poems.
This group of works is like a secret co-creation of literature and imagination in tribute to the boundless nature and the unbound imagination of human beings. In this series of works, I imagine a world where human beings seem very insignificant in comparison to everything else in the whole wide world, and symbolize the epidemic as the fog, posting a question:” What’s in the fog?”
Cited in Jorge Luis Borges: Rubaiyat, Elogio de la sombra, 1967
“Tender eves beneath this moon are fools,
Humble specimens of filth-strewn pools,
In whose watery mirrors you’ll espy
Endless images of endless pools.
May the Persian moon make us distrust
Golds of empty dusks, recurring lusts;
And tomorrow is today, but you
Are others, the dead, whose face is dust.”
About the Artist
Tianjun Li, also known as Timjune, was born in China, 1999, is a multidisciplinary visual artist and photographer living in Helsinki, Finland.
Timjune’s works focus on the interplay between diverse photographic subjects reflecting on living reality, creating a new poetic visual dimension through the process of reconstructing various elements. This unique approach allows him to reinterpret contemporary phenomena with an ethereal perspective of surrealism.
Timjune’s captivating works have garnered attention from international art presses and have been exhibited in prestigious museums and galleries across the globe. He is also one of the youngest artists to have held a solo exhibition in South China.
In addition to his artistic practice, he is also invited to collaborate with the music industry, creating album artwork and music visuals for international musicians and celebrities. His unique dreamlike vision and creative approach have earned him recognition as a rising talent in the art world.
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