Platform China Contemporary Art Institute will open LODTALAD's third solo exhibition, "Delve Into the Floating Island In Search Of Immortals," on June 22nd, presenting the specific facets of his work over the past two years.

The exhibition title derives from one of LODTALAD's works of the same name, where an unknown subject searches amidst a landscape of undulating wrinkles and clumps. An island is a mountain in the sea, partially hidden beneath the surface and unknown. The term "floating island" hints at stepping into an unreal place. This is a virtual world from LODTALAD's perspective, selectively representing the real world. Or rather, it reflects the natural experience we all employ when facing the virtual world, using existing knowledge to transpose the vision of the real world into the virtual, constructing preferences and habits with rationality.

In his 2022 solo exhibition "Birth," the virtual and real worlds interpenetrated as the virtual subject "LODTALAD" sought out a "new world" within the realm of aesthetics. In the blur and chaos, he peeled away the essence of a generative state. Plants, terrains, and organisms formed a cohesive whole through binary switching, shaping into form and imitating the formless. The still life, bodies, and landscapes here are both the smallest units and the most condensed wholes, reducing a complex system to a singular point, akin to a seed brimming with energy, awaiting the reveal of a time node.

This immaterial world seems to have developed into a dynamic state, continually renewing and updating itself. Rocks, artifacts, and unknown life forms participate as virtual entities, constructing this world. They appear to transition from calculated results to elements perceived through the artist's eyes, with the self also manifesting within. We might view this as LODTALAD's prolonged sketching in the virtual world. What seems like using objects as bricks is, in fact, weaving communities and settlements according to the artist's pre-existing worldview, becoming "landscape."