• Someone Changed My Mind

    2025.11.01 - 2025.12.21

    Rendering of Absence by Absent Gallery

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  • Junya Li

    Junya Li是一位生活在巴黎的中国艺术家。他的实践横跨摄影、 行为、声音与场域介入,常以文化、习俗、规则与体制作为艺 术的媒介与材料,编织替代性的叙事。其中,艺术生产与社会 关系相互纠缠。 在《Someone changed my mind》中,他通过一封邮件让 渡作品的实现,将不生产与秘密置于核心;在《Sun letter》 中,一封以霓虹书写的“太阳之信”在全球物流体系中不断迁 移,作品随每次寄送而改变体积与形态,显露流通中的连接与 断裂。 这些实践往往建立在与他人和制度的互涉之中,其中让渡、置 换与等待常作为这种互涉的姿态显现。 李俊亚毕业于法国第戎国立高等美术学院(DNSEP)与布拉格 美术学院,并曾在广告行业工作,这段经验强化了他对生产、 传播与消费机制的敏感。他曾在巴黎国际艺术城、Malus Rivus 与埃里温 :DDD Kunst House 驻留。近期个展包括《Far away enough to be in touch》(2025)与《Left hander in the right place》(2025)。

    Junya Li is a Paris-based artist whose practice spans photography, performance, sound, and site-specifc interventions. He takes culture, customs, rules, and institutions as both medium and material, weaving alternative narratives. Within this framework, artistic production and social relations become entwined. In Someone changed my mind, he relinquishes the realization of a work through an email, placing non-production and secrecy at the core; in Sun letter, a neon “letter of the sun” circulates through global logistics, changing in volume and form with each shipment and tracing connections and ruptures in circulation. His works unfold within an entanglement with others and with systems, where gestures of relinquishment, displacement, and waiting emerge. Li graduated from ENSA Dijon (DNSEP) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His earlier experience in the advertising industry sharpened his sensitivity to mechanisms of production, dissemination and consumption. He has been artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, Malus Rivus in Modane, and :DDD Kunst House in Yerevan. Recent solo exhibitions include Far away enough to be in touch (2025) and Left hander in the right place (2025).

    在筹备《Far away enough to be in touch》期间,我给策展人发过一封邮件,谈及一个梦:有人正在把我们讨论过的一个想法制作成作品。我把这当作一种征兆。于是我没有亲自去做,而是邀请策展人与我一起等待它在现实中出现,而原本的想法作为秘密闭口不谈。

    在 Absent Gallery 的同名个人项目 Someone changed my mind 中,这个决定采取了进一步的形式:一封密封的信成为作品隐秘的载体。它写给“改变了我想法的人”,邀请那个人在画廊呈现我梦见的那件作品。

    藏家可以开启此信,了解这个“秘密”构想的内容全貌,从而判断这封邀请应交予何人。

    One of the emails I sent to the curator while preparing Far away enough to be in touch talks about a dream: someone is making a piece of the very same idea we recently discussed about. I took it as a sign. Instead of producing the work myself, I asked the curator to wait with me for it to surface in reality—and to keep the original idea as a secret.

    For the solo project of the same title Someone changed my mind at Absent Gallery, this decision takes the further form of a sealed letter, the work’s concealed vessel. It is addressed to “someone who changed my mind,” inviting that person to present that piece in my dream at the gallery.

    The collector may open the letter to learn the “secret” idea and to determine to whom the invitation should be given.

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