Twenty-six Years Later (a journey into fiction and back again)

Lei’s early work strived to find the surreal and unusual in a pre-digital world, starting with raw and untreated shots. Sometimes these were carefully staged, as he cheated with light and shadow. The vast possibilities of blue-screen superimpositions, digital effects and digital sound processing later influenced his work, allowing him to create complete surrealism with Hollywood-like special effects.

His later work moved away from this notion, questioning reality against the synthetic. New ideas were contemplated and realised: videos were shot on location in the real world; all single takes, no special effects, and “pure”.

The Private view for this exhibition will take place as part of Professor Cox’s inaugural lecture on Monday 17 October 6 pm - 9 pm.

If you would like to attend this event please RSVP to inaugurallectures@ntu.ac.uk