Chinese artist Li Wei. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography. He is an artist and also a stunt man: he doesn´t use photoshop to create his illusions of reality; he uses props such as metal wires, scaffolding, acrobatics and mirrors.
His performances look to convey his continual sense of lost gravity. He is fascinated by the unstable sides of art. By the sense of danger. He thinks of his artistic work as a continual balancing act between a striving for freedom and a concern for preserving the little emotional security still available. So he suspends himself above the Beijing skyline to illustrate this, and to feel, to feel again; to experiment.
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“Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall against which we defend ourselves.”
–Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being–