WassinkLundgren – Lu Xiao Ben @ Pekin Fine Arts “About 1.90 meter, is it?” | DMB Media – Worldwide project and personal career management

Lu Xiao Ben – 2m

The work “Lu Xiao Ben” shows a body of work created by WassinkLudgren during the three years of Lundgren’s postgraduate studies at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. The series explores cultural differences by using his 200 cm height as a tool.

On an early winter day in October 2007 the outlines for this project were written down in a practice notebook for Chinese characters:

1) When I walk on the street of Beijing I feel like a celebrity.
2) Many people look at me.
3) This feeling I want to use for my new project.
4) My goal: be a celebrity in China before graduation.
5) Today I start!

It’s now three years that he has followed this statement and used the daily amount of Chinese attention to create a series of images playing with the perception of stardom and otherness.