Pretty Knowledge, Li Ran’s solo show 2012, Aike-dellarco Gallery, Shanghai, China
“漂亮的知识”，李然个展展览现场，艾可画廊，中国上海，2012年 （照片来自艺术家与艾可画廊）
Looking Forward, Montreal Biennale 2014, Exhibition view at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal ( Photo by Paul Litherland)
“期待”，蒙特利尔双年展展览现场，蒙特利尔当代美术馆，加拿大蒙特利尔，2014年( 照片来自Paul Litherland)
Pretty Knowledge
2012, Sound&Color Dual-Channel Video Installation, 6min 27sec, Variable Size
“Pretty Knowledge” (2012), is a dual-channel video work which takes after a segment of a video, popular on the internet, of a certain French seer who relates his predictions for the future. In one, he directly uses the video documentation of this “seer” predicting various major events due to happen after 1980; in the other video, myself plays the role of this seer and re-enacts his predictions with an imitation French, mimicking his French intonation and body language.
漂亮的知识
2012/双通道彩色有声录像装置/6分27秒/尺寸可变
《漂亮的知识》是一件双屏录像作品，取材于互联网上流行的一段某法国“通灵师”自述预测未来的视频。在两部分视频中，一个直接采用了这段记录这位“通灵师”1980年预测若干年后全球重大事件的视频；另一个部分，我扮演成这位预言家的形象，模仿他的法语语调和身体语言，用假的法语重新再现了他的预言过程。