Li Jinghu. Escape (My Family History)

What are € 8,500 to get an apartment in Sunny Beach? You buy it and you are an investor, a respected man, opening  jobs and you get a good position for a temporary resident and later with a Bulgarian citizenship you become a normally moved to Europe man. And most important you are not a refugee. A refugee gives the same amount of money, but on human trafficking, so if you don’t feel like adventure, try this way. My father tried once and got his 12 years in prison. Nowadays what you can get with at the utmost is to be sent back to Turkey. At least these are my associations of Li Jinghu work. As you already know, I am inherently burdened.

My colleague Li Jinghu has also had issues with ancestral memory, but from Guangdong Province in South China. Li Jinghu was born in Dongguan, Guangdong Province in 1972. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department in South China Normal University, Guangzhou. Li currently lives and works in Dongguan, China.

Li Jinghu’s work Escape (My Family History) is poetically-charged, his minimalist approach is chiefly influenced by his personal experience of living and working in the city of Dongguan – an area that has become a major manufacturing hub in the Pearl River Delta. Using materials ‘Made in China’ to reflect on China’s contemporary socio-political, economic and cultural reality, Li’s work is characterized by its simple and restrained formal presentation, and celebrated for its powerful impact and emotional depth.

This sculptural work presented by  Cass Sculpture Foundation, won’t be interpreted as art in our country. Under some proviso he might get some funds for the materials, but to get it without investment they would rather pick as a sponsor the networks and lamps provider, and the sponsor would get something arranged still for no money for compensation, and moreover they would thus stick to a scheme. At the same time Cass sell this work of unequivocal impact and it has undeniable contribution to the plastic and emotional language of contemporary sculpture and art.

I suggest we take an artist refugee from Asia and send back instead of him a Bulgarian clerk of Asian thinking with a slight violation of the Dublin regulation. We will pay whom we should.