The Farm of The Most Beautiful And Accurate detail

Work from Zhao Guanghui

Hopefully I could create a limited fine view through this work, to build a “correct and most beautiful” nature. Starting with a discomfort, I probed the issue: how to return to the nice dream after being restrained by calm orders. I restored the soft memory of the natural matters through my growth. It is my personal naïve fight! As the intervention of will, design, esthetics and order could not be avoided. I provided myself a comfort through the production of this correct and familiar beautiful farm.
As I think back, the experience of growing up in the rain forest of southern border seems so unreal, while I live in the lights-dotted Beijing. Although I keep the same pace with the swift speed of China, I have never feel fit for such a development. I rode horses in childhood but now I drive cars and enjoy the convenience in the city while miss the childhood. A villager lives in a metropolis with an uncertainty. Once simple but now complicated. Such change has happened in 20 years. It is so similar to a quick evolution with corpses everywhere.
To express the dramatic feelings in life resembles an expression of life without a stand. Therefore I made more than 300 bones as I drank tea on my balcony of my studio. Then I put the logos of all kinds of goods on those bones. Those were the proof of my luxury in life. I made a record for all these things. At the same time I thought paradoxically: without all these things I could only be a 170cm-long creature. There would be no Zhao Guanghui then.   
Dozens of machine insects, some skeletons of electronics, an incondite artificial skull of red deer. I made all these with the most factual manner, for I wanted to eliminate the personal taste. I tried not to make the parts of the installation work under any kind of mood. Lifelike insects, specimen of bird, bones, skull, lawn and trees—they looked unreal when I put them together.
I adopt a documentary way to work on my art. I made number labels for the sculptures just like what people do in a biology museum. But the outcome demonstrates a bizarre absurdity. That is not what I long for, so I made a pool that lies ahead of my child-lived house in my installation. Its reality and warmth helps suppress my allergy.