Zikun Li



Projects: Grid in Grid | Pig’s Sky, Pig’s Happiness | Birthdayism | Endless Running | Speak Silently |  Under The Holy Mountain |

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Grids are omnipresent visual elements in the contemporary world, serving as the foundation for visual order. Firstly, grids are prevalent in daily life, constructing the underlying visual order in society. In art and design history, grids are situated at the origins of various modern art and design movements. The endless proliferation of grids, unmistakably serving as a visual representation, becomes systems and methods for establishing internal order, and a modern dilemma.

Grid in Grid narrates everything about grids, utilizing the "grid" as both a visual form language and a narrative method to analyze the origins, metaphors, mechanisms, and impacts of grids. Ⅰ : Index, compiles diverse grid representations associated with people's daily life in a table, creating a vague portrait of the "grid". Ⅱ : List, enumerates "grid" images accompanied by textual autobiography of "grid" and "grid" typography, endowing the "grid" with life details and personalized traits. Ⅲ : Log, utilizes a desktop movie to document a day's computer operation experience, showcasing grids present in everyday behavior. 

Grid in Grid navigates between fiction and reality to present evidence and analysis of the existence of grids, enabling audiences to find resonance in the detailed narrative, and discover the prevalence and multiple influences of grids in real life today.


Grid in Grid
格子自传 2024|07



Ⅰ : Index
Ⅱ : List
Ⅲ : Log