ABSENT GALLERY 缺席画廊
Artist | 艺术家
Jianhao Lei 雷剑豪
Duration | 展会时间
VIP Preview 贵宾预览
12.18 13:00 - 19:00
Public Days 公众参观
12.19 - 12.21 10:00 - 18:00Venue | 地址
Haizhu International Convention & Exhibition Center – L1 Hall
No. 630–638 Xingang East Road, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, China
© 缺席画廊及艺术家
Artists and Absent Gallery
ABSENT GALLERY is honored to announce that it will present the works of collaborating artist Lei Jianhao in the Spotlight section of the Moordn Art Fair 2025.
Taking Lei Jianhao’s video installation The Decisive Moment as a starting point, Absent Gallery introduces a critique of anthropocentrism into public space, allowing it to unfold and evolve freely.
This work, generated by a reinforcement learning model, actively breaks free from the constraints of pictographic symbols, entrusting itself to randomly selected branches and unpredictable natural forces. It dismantles the techno-utopian fantasy of “total control,” presenting what can be termed a “post-digital sublime.” Its creative process subverts the logic of traditional art production—the artist is no longer the sole creator, as AI, trees, and weather all become co-participants in the act of creation. Here, the unpredictability arising from the interaction between machine logic and organic systems thoroughly blurs the boundary between control and loss of control, and the “completion” of the work lies precisely in its inevitable fall and fragmentation.
In the public space, weathered shipping crates engage in a vivid dialogue with screens that display the real-time status of the work, unfolding discussions on post-structuralism and post-humanism. The former documents the hidden journey of human-made objects before their arrival in the space, while the latter reveals the seemingly perpetual “incompleteness” of art, suggesting that interpretation remains suspended until the arrival of the “decisive moment” of impact. This dual narrative invites viewers to linger in the tension between control and chaos, presence and absence, completion and dissolution.
Absent Gallery 缺席画廊荣幸宣布将于 Moordn Art Fair 2025 SpotLight 单元 呈现合作艺术家雷剑豪作品。
缺席画廊以艺术家雷剑豪的影像装置作品《决定性瞬间》作为切入，将对人类中心主义的叩问带入公共空间任其生长。
这件由强化学习模型⽣成的作品，主动摒弃了象形符号的桎梏，将自己交付给随机选定的树枝和不可预测的⾃然⼒量，⽡解了技术乌托邦对“全盘可控”的幻想。这呈现了一种“后数字崇高”（post-digital sublime），它的创作过程颠覆了传统艺术生产的逻辑——艺术家不再是唯⼀的造物主，AI、树木、天气共同成为了创作的参与者。在这里，机器逻辑与有机系统互动中的不可预测性促使控制与失控的边界被彻底模糊，作品的“完成”恰恰在于其不可避免的坠落与破碎。
在公共空间中，带着岁月痕迹的运输木箱与实时显示作品状态的屏幕形成鲜明对话，后结构主义与后人类主义的讨论也在此展开。前者记录着人造物在抵达空间前的隐秘旅程，后者则暴露了艺术似乎永远“未完成”的真相，暗示诠释将始终悬置，直至坠地“决定性瞬间”的降临。这种双重叙事邀请我们徘徊于控制与混沌、在场与缺席、完成与溃散的张力之间。
Jianhao Lei (b.1998)
LEI Jianhao（b.1998）Born in Changsha, based in Beijing.
Graduated from the Affiliated High School of China Central Academy of Fine Arts (2017), China Central Academy of Fine Arts (Bachelor’s degree in 2021, Master’s degree in 2024), he explores the intricate connections between reality, fiction, materiality, and technology. His practice consistently revolves around the axis of technological system failures, constructing an ongoing dialogue between matter and technology. In his works, he frequently employs early neural network algorithms, natural minerals, plants, found objects, and even natural environments, showcasing a distinctive materiality and technological sensibility. Through experimental creative processes, Lei Jianhao continuously investigates how emerging technologies can expand the boundaries of perception and redefine the relationship between humans and the world. His works often manifest as dynamic, uncertain processes rather than singular conclusions. His pieces have been exhibited multiple times in international art institutions and spaces.
雷剑豪 (b.1998) , 出生于湖南长沙, 现工作生活于北京
毕业于中央美术学院附中（2017 年）、中央美术学院本科（2021 年） 及硕士（2024 年）。他探索现实、虚构、物质与技术之间错综复杂的联系，他的创作始终以技术系统的失 效性为轴心，构建起一场持续的物质与技术对话。他在作品中频繁运用早期神经网络算法、天然矿石、植 物、现成品甚至自然环境，展现出独特的物质性与技术感。通过实验性的创作过程，雷剑豪不断探索新技 术如何拓展感知边界、重新定义人与世界的关系。他的作品往往是一种动态的、不确定的过程，而非单一 的结论。其作品多次展出于国际艺术机构和空间
Spotlight works
The Decisive Moment 决定性瞬间 (2024)
100 × 120× 170 cm
Video Installation 影像装置
Live streaming system, aluminum, persimmon tree (230 years old), plywood
直播系统、铝、柿子树（230年）、胶合板
The Decisive Moment 决定性瞬间
强化学习模型创造出的拒绝象形的人造物，它被放置在程序随机选中的大树枝桠上，塞入完整的生态体系。 狂风、雷电、冰雹、暴雨，无法预知的因素也许会使其坠落，当物体坠落直至接触地面的瞬间，作品完成。 带着纹章和划痕的运输木箱补充它更早些的轨迹，显示屏则诚实展现作品此刻未完成的状态。
The artificial object created by the reinforcement learning model, which rejects representational forms, is placed on a large tree branch randomly selected by the program and integrated into a complete ecosystem.
Strong winds, lightning, hail, torrential rain—unpredictable factors may cause it to fall. The moment the object descends and makes contact with the ground, the artwork is complete.
A transport wooden crate, marked with emblems and scratches, supplements its earlier trajectory, while a display screen honestly reveals the unfinished state of the work at this moment.
Installation View
Other Selected Works
嵌合体 Chimera (2024)
40 × 100 × 180 cm
天然石笋、水泥、 Ca(OH)₂溶液、不锈钢、ai程序
Natural stalagmites, cement, Ca(OH)₂ solution, stainless steel, AI program
chimera呈现机器尝试贴近自然物的过程， 装置上半部分取材于天然石笋， 下半部的形态源自生成初期被 强制叫停的强化学习模型 ，这个模型被训练成不断向经典雕塑学习，然而这个尝试旨在让它停止靠近精致 和聪慧，成为一个未经驯化或雕琢的扭曲着的物体， 或者说这种随机才更接近于机器意志 。 通过严格模拟 溶洞中的生长环境 ，这个嫁接物在展厅中享受最大程度与原始环境近似的条件 。水箱中的氢氧化钙Ca(OH)₂ 溶液自上而下滴落， 与空气接触在其表面堆积成白色固体碳酸钙， 形成无法预知的形状也中和掉 拼接的割裂感。
chimera试图变成自然物继续生长。
Chimera presents a machine's attempt to approximate natural forms. The upper part of the installation draws from natural stalactites, while the lower section takes shape from a reinforcement learning model halted prematurely during its generative phase. This model was trained to continuously learn from classical sculptures, yet the intervention sought to stop it from approaching refinement and intelligence, leaving it as an untamed, uncarved, and twisted object—or perhaps this randomness is closer to the true will of the machine.
By meticulously simulating the growth environment of a limestone cave, this grafted entity is provided with conditions in the exhibition space that closely resemble its original habitat. A calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)₂) solution drips from above into a water tank, reacting with the air to deposit white solid calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) on its surface, forming unpredictable shapes and gradually neutralizing the disjointedness of the splicing.
Chimera strives to become a natural object and continue growing.
猜 Guessing (2024)
100 × 150 × 300 cm
AI程序、帕灯、镀锌管、静音滑轮、调光硅箱
AI Program, PAR light, galvanized pipe, silent pulley, dimmer silicon box
1/3, ED. OF 版数 3+1 AP
一盏老式帕灯在头顶无规律的随机开关， 另一盏帕灯则在对面记录着他闪烁的频率， 通过不断学习记录的 数据，最终试图对他进行预测来同步开关的频率。
An old-fashioned PAR light flickers irregularly above, switching on and off at random intervals, while another PAR light opposite records the rhythm of its flickers. Through continuous learning of the recorded data, it eventually attempts to predict and synchronize its own switching pattern with the first light's erratic behavior.
表面研究 Surface research 20250430(2025)
30 × 30 cm
手工打磨铝板、半透明打印
Hand-polished aluminum plate, semi-transparent printing
手工打磨一块金属板赋予其独特的纹理 ，这些方向性痕迹在不同视角下呈现出动态的光泽变化 。 环绕拍摄生成的二维影像被转化为体积数据 ，机器视觉将光影差异误读为三维形变， 生成虚拟的隆起结构 。这些由算法重构的体积数据经图像打印回嵌至原始金属表面 。在特定光照条件下，虚拟隆起与金属板原生光泽相互干涉， 形成真假难辨的视觉错位 ，模糊了物理与虚拟之间的界限。
A hand-polished metal plate is imbued with unique directional textures, its surface exhibiting dynamic luster variations when viewed from different angles. The two-dimensional footage captured during a circumferential filming process is converted into volumetric data, where machine vision misinterprets the play of light and shadow as three-dimensional deformations, generating virtual raised structures.
These algorithmically reconstructed volumetric forms are then printed and transferred back onto the original metal surface. Under specific lighting conditions, the virtual protrusions interfere with the plate's innate reflective qualities, creating an optical ambiguity that blurs the boundary between the physical and the virtual—rendering the distinction between real and simulated textures indistinguishable.
