14 / Oct / 2018
Opposed to conform to societal norms and unwilling to restrict the self, this kind of women refuse to be ordinary and do what is expected. Xiao Lu, Zhao Yinou, and Cao Yu have been her kind. They may have multiple personas, as daughter, mother, and wife, but more importantly, they are artists.
28 / Apr / 2018
Xiao Lu stands inside the plexiglass box, while the audience burns cigars made of absinthe leaves and inserts them into the holes of the box. As the fog intensifies, she starts to cough, cry and scream…
18 / Dec / 2017
Every inch of land in China belongs to the state. When the government needs land, large-scale forced demolition becomes a sight that can be seen anytime and anywhere.
05 / Dec / 2017
On December 5, 2017, I saw the news about the eviction of the “low-end population” from Xinjian Village in Beijing’s Daxing District through WeChat in Hangzhou.
01 / Aug / 2017
Beijing forcibly drove out the “low-end population” Photographer: Xiao Lu Time: December 1, 2017 Location: Xihongmen, Daxing District, Beijing. In the cold winter end of 2017, in Xihongmen and Xinjian Village, Daxing District, Beijing, more than 300,000 proples who not born in Beijing were driven out by government, and call them “low-end population”. …
31 / Jul / 2017
Book: Art And China After 1989 Theater of the World ( In English ) Author: Alexandra Monroe, Philip Tinari, Hou Hanru Press: @2017 The Soloman R. Guggenheim Foundation. Xiao Lu’s work Dialogue including in this book.
13 / May / 2017
Xiao Lu places 27 blue acrylic plates (40 x 60 cm) from east to west in a diagonal line in the Piazza San Marco in Venice, and pours a bottle of Moutai (53% alcohol) into 7 white porcelain bowls.
12 / May / 2017
Xiao Lu scattered bullets and millet to Piazza San Marco in Venice. Pigeons gathered around her and ate up the millet, leaving the bullets.
16 / Feb / 2017
Two blocks of frozen water and two blocks of frozen ink suspended mid-air, drip continuously onto xuan rice paper. Xiao Lu walks towards the first black ice block, caresses it and spins it, moaning softly, letting the black ink drip onto her white dress.
23 / Oct / 2016
I was inspired by the Arctic icebergs: the ice block was the barrier to break through. While cutting the ice with a knife, I hurt myself: my blood started to spill all over the ice surface, as if my life was truly touching the aura of the Polar Regions.
01 / Aug / 2016
The xuan paper is spread over the felt, and by the penetrative force of water and ink, the traces left on the paper are preserved.
19 / Mar / 2016
The work, People, continues Xiao Lu’s response to the concept of yin and yang. In Eastern philosophy, yin and yang, as the two core elements that make up nature, reinforce and neutralise each other.
To see the problems clearly, you have to view in the dimension of time. “More than twenty years” is quite a lengthy stretch of history for an individual, but in terms of art history, it may be quite short.
05 / Sep / 2015
Ink is Yin,
Water is Yang,
Yin and Yang becoming One
is the Way of the Universe.
27 / Aug / 2015
It was a repetitive and slow performance, an action which women have done for thousands of years. But of course with a signification beyond that of only cleaning household linen.
07 / Dec / 2014
A door opened, Xiao Lu went into a room, and the door closed behind her. In the darkness, there are more than eighty square-shaped candles.
03 / Nov / 2013
Using “skin paper”(pizhi,mulberry bast fibre paper), Xiao Lu constructed a room of 20 square meters, imitating the Daoist method of Pigu (Pigu, literally “refrain from eating grains”, a Daoist isolation exercise).
XIAO LU 肖鲁 Xiao Lu (born 1962) works with performance, installation and video. She gained fame by shooting her own installation, Dialogue, at the opening of the China Avant-garde exhibition in 1989. After a period of silence, Xiao returned to Beijing in 2003 and since then has produced works with highly personal as well as …
02 / Aug / 2013
The design informed by the conception of the co-existence of straight and skew. When I was young, things were generally tangled up: straight and skew, right and wrong, black and white. they pervade your thinking and creating.
The discussion centered on whether it is meaningful for Xiao Lu to be “naked,” and whether her art conforms to rules: a. Can the church’s taboo be removed with “nakedness” without the slightest hesitancy?
02 / Aug / 2012
In male-dominated discourse, a woman’s vagina is the shubjest of insult. In his famous The Tropic of Cancer, the American novelist Henry Millar compared the vagina to “an ugly notch, a never healing wound and a despicable ditch.
03 / Mar / 2012
The title is derived from the French sbsurdist play The Bald Soprano, written by famous playwright Eugene lonesco in the 1950s. In this case, because the words for “spear” and “song” are pronounced the same way in Chinese.
Focus and Freeze-Revisiting Dialogue By Hu Xiaolan On 5 February 1989, on the traditional Chinese New Year’s Eve, about two hours after the China/Avantgarde Exhibition at the National Art Museum of China Beijing opened, the female artist Xiao Lu, who was 26 at the time, fired two shots in quick succession at her …
Book: CONTEMPORARY ART” ( World Currents) / In English
Author: Terry Smith
Publication: 2011 Laurence King Publishing
Book: Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Chinese Art / In English,
Author: Gao Minglu,
Publication: The MIT Press 2011
On 5 February 1989, on the traditional Chinese New Year’s Eve, about two hours after the China/Avantgarde Exhibition at the National Art Museum of China Beijing opened, the female artist Xiao Lu, who was 26 at the time, fired two shots in quick succession at her own installation work Dialogue. The sound of …
22 / Apr / 2011
On 1 January 2011, I copied out a Tang poem using Chinese medicine for oral administration that I had to hand. Continuing to copy Tang poetry for several successive days, I experienced a feeling of physical and mental well-being, so I decided to continue for 365 days in order to copy out the entire Three Hundred Tang Poems.
