DNA

Li Jingxiong pasted the aluminum coil tube with the hot-melt glue on the surface of the drawn foam board, and then he mounted the foam board on the aluminum board. This work was inspired by the news that the first case of baby’s genes being edited in the mother’s Uterine. He believes that the development of biotechnology announces the birth of a new art-“Life Collage”. In his work, he shaped the aluminum coil in a casual and artistic form, echoing the manipulation of genes in the laboratory by scientists. At the same time, his use of icy inorganic materials to represent subtle living matter, this also raises the question of how scientific phenomena that seem to be out of reach but are at the core of self-exploration are conceptualized and visualized in our culture.