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 Link Connect Liquid

  Artist: Marguerite Li-Garrigue

Venue: 5 square Erik Satie 91450 Soisy-sur-Seine, Paris, France

Please make an appointment in advance to: Louis.aisin@yahoo.com

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Tong Gallery+Projects is honored to announce that the solo exhibition of artist Marguerite Li-Garrigue Link Connect Liquid will be open from June 24th to July 31st, 2022, during which the artist's latest paintings and drawings will be presented. Look forward to seeing you there!

L.C.L (Link Connect Liquid) comes from the Japanese animation "Evangelion". It is the basic form of life, the water of life. This yellowish, viscous liquid flooded the earth, and all human souls on earth inhabited here. Human beings have the same consciousness with each other, so the world has no war and no estrangement - the ultimate ideal form of human existence.

In Chinese, it is translated into "L.C.L Sea", which is similar to the "Quantum Sea" of physicist Dirac, but closer to a scientific concept of the last century "Primitive Soup". In 1871, Darwin wrote in a letter: "the earliest life is likely to be in a hot pool.". The beating organic molecules in this bowl of "hot soup" are the original entities of the birth of all living things on earth today.

Marguerite is an artist with a "sense of the sea". Five years after graduating from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, you can still see a sincere dream of wanton fantasy in her works. During the exchange at the School of Visual Arts in New York, she took entomology as an elective course to learn how to make small specimens. But in this exhibition, you need to look up at the giant dinosaurs she created, or walk through the staggered canine teeth of Spring Dog. She projected this physical "bigness" into a big volume of the sound of her heart.

This emotional flow is more evident in the series "the Badgers". Every character comes from the people close to her. She likes to observe people’s faces and immerses herself in this subtle and vivid emotion between them. She is still that happy entomologist (although she claims that she is just an amateur), who sharply peels emotions from the human body and makes "specimens" on wooden boards. You marvel at her constant concern for the world around,  warm and extremely accurate.

In a sense, whether it is the giant creatures she cast or the small men with expressions, everything is about “people” in her works. In an era when the bright appearance of globalization is breaking down day by day and mankind is gradually stepping into uncertainty, Marguerite still hopes to build an "Intimatopia". But in her world, human beings do not return to the “L.C.L sea" and become the same essence, but are still full of differences and collisions. But after all, we still strive to become ONE together.

This is Marguerite's tiny little dream and resistance.