墨方荣幸地宣布，我们将于2025年5月10日举办艺术家李易纹的最新个展“世界岛”。这也是李易纹继2021年“湍流”、2023年“共时场”之后在墨方的第三次个展。展览将持续到2025年6月22日。

“世界岛”这个沁透着孤独与荒寂的词由麦金德于1904年在《历史的地理枢纽》中提出，我也不记得它是什么时候随着地缘博弈、货币环流、经济兴衰等等一些宏大的词汇一起进入我的记忆，而此际把它打捞出来并作为这次展览的题目，并不是要在它原本的范畴内使用，而是经由我的误读在我心里投射出一种想象，我把“世界-岛”做个简单的拆分，“世界”就像我们生存的汪洋现实，斑驳残酷，纷繁复杂；而“岛”是地理的碎片，更是我们内心的镜象，封闭丰饶，形单影只。

过去几年里我多次去到国内二三线城市乡镇，见到不少这些年烂尾的楼房居舍，像是被城市化进程遗落的孤岛，它们与外部环境的关系特别像是作为个体的我与这个社会机器的连接，我把它们作为我绘画的主角，想记录下它们存在的气息，我在绘画过程里努力在其中注入涌动的情绪，投射自己的呼吸和被现实挤压的感受，希望它们能发出微光，照映出一种无奈和温暖。

现实形成的海浪每天冲刷着自我建构的岛屿的潮间地带，这片潮涨潮落的区域又成为滋生创作动力的温床，我们在这里本能的做着依存式的抵抗。然而我们每一天睁开眼，现实依然扑面而来匆匆成为记忆和历史，每次入睡后又迅速呼啸而去坠入回忆，留下的只有一声叹息，四顾茫然。

世界岛-1 布面丙烯 170×320cm 2025

World Island-1 Acrylic on canvas 2025

Mocube is pleased to announce that we will host artist Li Yiwen's latest solo exhibition, World Island, on May 10, 2025. This will be Li Yiwen's third solo exhibition at Mocube, following “Tuān Liú” in 2021 and “Gòng Shí Chǎng” in 2023. The exhibition will run until June 22, 2025.

The term "World Island," imbued with a sense of solitude and desolation, was coined by Mackinder in 1904 in The Geographical Pivot of History. I no longer remember when it first entered my memory, alongside other grandiose concepts like geopolitical games, currency flows, and economic rise and fall. Now, dredging it up as the title of this exhibition is not to employ it within its original context, but rather to let my misinterpretation cast a projection of imagination in my mind. I break "World-Island" into two simple parts: "World" resembles the vast, turbulent reality we inhabit—mottled, brutal, and endlessly complex; while "Island" is a fragment of geography, but even more so a mirror of our inner selves—enclosed yet abundant, solitary and isolated.

Over the past few years, I've traveled frequently to small towns and rural areas in China's second- and third-tier cities, where I encountered numerous abandoned and unfinished residential buildings, like isolated islands left behind by the tide of urbanization. Their relationship with the external environment mirrors my own connection, as an individual, to the machinery of society. I've made them the protagonists of my paintings, hoping to capture the lingering aura of their existence. In the process of painting, I strive to infuse them with surging emotions, projecting my own breath and the sensation of being crushed by reality, hoping they emit a faint glow—one that reflects both resignation and warmth.

The waves shaped by reality crash daily against the intertidal zone of our self-constructed islands, and this ebb and flow becomes the fertile ground for creative impulse. Here, we instinctively wage a dependent resistance. Yet every morning, the moment we open our eyes, reality rushes in only to swiftly turn into memory and history. Each time we fall asleep, it roars away, plunging into recollection, leaving behind nothing but a sigh and a gaze into the void.

李易纹，1982年生于河南洛阳，艺术家。2006年毕业于中央美术学院壁画系获学士学位，2011年毕业于中央美术学院壁画系获硕士学位，现生活工作于北京。曾获2006学院之光“艺术创新”奖及王嘉廉油画奖学金。

李易纹的艺术创作以绘画为主要媒介，他的绘画始终贯穿着对于时间、空间与时空的思索与兴趣，记忆中的经验和当下的体验彼此渗透、不断堆积成为灵感和表达的源头。李易纹常使用后现代的方法，通过对图像的过滤、选择与提升，将非逻辑、虚构、异位与直觉的要素融入画面，在颠覆了以往的绘画叙事的同时，又生成了新的图像意义。