Our Tombstones are Next to Each Other
A place of liberated rules, separate from the conventional restrictions of real life, the gaming world, or any virtual space.
Words by Yangyang Li
People are accustomed to using their positions to distinguish between right and wrong, to distinguish between murderers and victims.
However, we live in intricate networks, and causality can no longer be sorted out.
In other words, we forgive the unforgivable every day. The unforgivable is forgiven every day.
I made two tombs.
One is for an anonymous killed by the system,
And another is for a wild deer killed by my accompany.
Then I buried them together.
The person killed by the system could be me, The person who killed the deer could also be me.
I could be the murderer, the victim, and they could be my tombstones.
About Artist
Lisha Chen, born in Chongqing in 1996and obtained a master’s degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021, now work and live in Los Angeles. Because of the broken family in her childhood and the experience of overseas
wandering when she grew up, her work is constantly reflecting on how the connection between people is constantly negated in “self-transcendence”, flowing and deforming like a liquid. Her works emphasize the connection between individual experience and abstract social systems. Her works often have the interdisciplinary characteristic of social sciences and are often presented in the form of video and performance.
Education Background
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States Master of Design in Designed Objects 2019.7- 2021.12
China Agricultural University, Beijing, China Bachelor in Industrial Design, September 2014—June 2018
University of California, Los Angeles, United States Technology Leadership Summer Institute, June 2018—August 2018