Everyone knows I love a floater, so when M. Scott Brauer commented on the Chinese photography post and said he wished I’d included Li Wei, I grabbed the folder of Wei’s work that’s been burning a hole on my desktop and uploaded it with glee.

Wei is a photographer and performance artist who puts himself in gravity-defying poses, often with the use of harnesses. Thirty-seven-year-old Wei intentionally seeks to surprise and shock the viewer:

“The first reaction is astonishment. Some people think they are full of sense of humor. They are curious about how I did this. Sometimes I am in real danger; I have to hang myself high with steel
wires and people do get a little worried for me, but I am fine. My work and artistic experience are characterized by a unique
specificity and particularity. My artistic language is universal and
deals with themes about contemporary politics and society using symbols
understood by everyone in every part of the world. I am fascinated by
the unstable and dangerous sides of art and I hope my works reflect
these aspects.”

 

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