We are all miscoded rhinos.
Recent Selective Works
It’s Not My Fault You Make Terrible Bananas
Photography, Printmaking
67 scans of bananas to prove a shocking but sincere fact: it‘s not my fault that you made bad bananas. Even the rhino in the bananas felt angry. Therefore, this work was a necessity.
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The Sinking, Moribund Rhino
Photography, Drawing
By using lens-free enlarging, direct charcoal drawing, and camera-less exposures on 4x5 negative film, combined with two inkjet prints on Japanese papers, manual smudging, and digital compositing techniques, to recreate and express the imagined traces of a rhino drowning in the depths of perception and feeling.
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The Mushroom
Photography, Drawing
A mixed-media portrait work of a person named Thor who looks like a mushroom.
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The Scorpios: 001
Photography, Mixed-Media
148x210mm/8899x12393pix
The Scorpios: 002/003
Photography, Mixed-Media
105*148mm/9162*12390pix and 105x148mm/8896*12314pix
The History of Rhino’s Zygotes: 001-004
Photography, Mixed-Media
What are we truly seeing when we gaze upon a rhinoceros? Could I still draw strength and inspiration for my art from it if the rhinoceros were stripped of all its recognizable traits? What is a rhinoceros? For years, I have been profoundly drawn to this powerful, complex, and enigmatic mammal, incorporating it into my artistic practice. Yet, I realized that I had overlooked the immature and infant rhino entirely. Was I truly drawn to the rhino itself or merely to its characteristics and appearance? I chose to trace back to the very source and the earliest point of its life. I sought an answer.
140mm*210mm/Varied prints
The Kneeling Woman and Her Big Face on the Rhino’s Beautiful Skin
Photography, Drawing
A woman that I saw in my dream, who reminds me of the rhino.
210mm*297mm
The Imprisoned Big Rhino
Drawing, Photography
When we look at ourselves in the mirror, are we imprisoned within the reflective surface? As I contemplate the connection between the "rhino" and my personal desires, I am overcome with a sense of speechlessness. The "rhino" is just a concrete animal. Yet it seems to carry the weight of a catastrophic future. I believe this catastrophe is inevitable.
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The Photoman
Installation, Photography, Video, Digital art
With the popularity of smartphones and social media, photography has become a common lifestyle and cultural phenomenon in modern society. Everyone can take and share photos on mobile phones anytime, a phenomenon known as "The Age of Photographic Ubiquity".
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The Bisexual Rhinos’ Footprints
Drawing, Photography
The footprints of the rhino and my own fingerprints were supposed to be invisible. And yet, I tried to follow the footprints of the bisexual rhino to find an invisible end. But when I arrived, all I got were the footprints we left.
24x36inch(with frame)
Touching the Rhino’s Skin
Drawing, Photography, Behavioral art
Searching for the rhino is difficult and random, yet the process is a necessity to me. I could already sense the rhino’s presence, so I decided to touch it on the paper. I slowly rubbed many pieces of charcoal between my hands until they nearly disappeared. I felt the rhino more intensely and clearly.
It hides between the charcoal dust and the paper surface.
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The Rhino on the Horizon
Photography, Drawing
If I can see the rhino within my terminal and goal, it will become a necessity to visualize this feeling. I tried to integrate the two to show this subtle relationship between them. The cracks of the film are becoming the pointers of that destination. The textures of the paper are becoming the expressions of the process of arriving there.
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Several Days of Heavy Rain in Santa Clarita
Photography, drawing
When the extremely rare rainy season comes, the fear of accidents becomes inevitable. For instance, we can’t see our own face or anything extra through the glass. Rainwater only makes clothes and roads dirtier and more imperfect. Insects with bad habits gushed out from the depths of the soil in large numbers.
By enlarging the seaweed on the negative film through direct exposure and editing, and then multiple inkjet printings on different papers, as well as manual smudging to describe and recreate the atmospheres and emotions experienced during rare rainy days in Santa Clarita, California.
Project 13
What are We Watching and Discussing When We are Watching and Discussing the Plants?
Seaweed in the enlarger/Negative in the 3D scanner
Photography, Scanning art, Sculpture
Thor
Drawing, Scanning Art
A portrait work of a person named Thor, whom I drew. Nevertheless, it has become a self-portrait work after I finished it, and when I edited it.
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Wordpaintorys
Drawing, Scanning Arts,
Through a process of recombination with a degree of randomness, combined with contemporary calligraphic techniques, I have undertaken a secondary creation of several short stories and long poems I composed several years ago.
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THEY
An intriguing and precarious intimate relationship between three people.
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Tayane-01/02
Photography
A series of portrait photographs focusing on women in Tai'an, revealing the genuine fear and unease concealed behind their faces.
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The Knight of Rhinos
The inspiration came from when I first began to sense the presence of my rhino. It entered my body and mind gradually yet erratically. It seemed to be fleeing, yet showed no regret for its decision to draw near me.
The Rhino’s Toilet Room
Scanning Art, Photography
The rhinoceros is a powerful animal, brimming with passion. Its toilet room is a place of wonder. Impurities are not born, but move through the intestines and are expelled. All thoughts and inspirations move and are expelled between the textures on the walls.
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Through the Frames
Photography
Can we see through the screen? If so, can we see the tangible forms behind objects as clearly as if we were looking through a completely transparent pane of glass?
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He Died By the Window in the Hallway Next to the Classroom in His High School
Installation, Sculpture, Drawing, Photography, Mixed-Media
A murder scene of a student in a Chinese public high school. Created using many objects and different materials.
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Russia
Photography
Suburbs of Russia during the winter.
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Me and I
Photography, Scanning Art
A self-portrait collaged photograph.
50cm*50cm
Project 24 (Photobook)
The Wonder Under the Bridge -Zhuozhou, China, 2023
Full book online:
https://freight.cargo.site/m/C2652203488679562013824944388215/Project-7_The-Wonder-Under-the-Bridge_Large-Format-Film-PhotographyPhoto-Album_.pdf
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Selective Short Films (Experimental/Narrative)
1. The Dance of Death (2024)
Written, directed, cinematographed, and edited by Liron Donovan.
A film about intimacy. A story about a transgender dancer who just lost her mother before a show.
2. Fallen Cherries (2023)
Written, directed, produced, cinematographed, and edited by Liron Donovan.
A fantastical, experimental, symbolic film, and the debut of my non-narrative short film. Offline with my own co-curated screenings and participation in many festivals, as well as public screenings.
3. The Calendar (2024)
Written, directed, cinematographed, and edited by Liron Donovan.
A fantasy, narrative, and romantic story about a young boy’s loss.
4. Pin 针 (2024)
Editor, Creative Consultant
An experimental short film.
Updated 24.10.31