Incubator

                                                                                                                                                                             Gu Zhenqing

   The original meaning of incubator was a device for theartificial incubationof animal eggs. Beijing Li Space defines itself as an incubator space aimed at providing exhibition space and shared resources such as curation, promotion, information and academic exchange for artists facing the difficulties of their early creative careers. An incubator can be an impenetrable protective cover for creativity, or it can be a platform that gathers various artistic forces to clash and create new potential. The self-practice, self-expression and self-values affirmation of contemporary art present a spiritual cross section of a given period in time. The ideal of the incubator is to incubate its subject so that it can soon go out and create on its own in the social reality of the wider world.

   Contemporary art production is mankind’s spirit of innovation, with the potential to release and change modern society. The aim of contemporary art is to smash the limitations of established norms, systems and morality in the cultural field, to cast off the yoke of everyday life in modern society and to liberate the individual to the greatest extent possible. Contemporary art is a global cultural transformation without historical precedent, and in order to define and interpret it we must look beyond traditional systems of definition and interpretation. Contemporary art expression is richer in tension and flexibility, pushing people to reexamine past, present and future. Each innovation by an artist is not necessarily a “new branch off the old tree” but a potential integral component of the evergreen tree that is contemporary art.