·Lu Jie·Beijing

《No Foreigners Beyond this Point》, installation; 2006
“No Foreigners Beyond this Point” is a sign which the author has seen often in his travels in China and internationally, using the power of text to set apart and carve out a particular space.What is represented within this area are all contradictions hidden under the symbol of a unified identity.This warning is actually a two way street, much like a revolving door.People are continuously identifying and counter-identifying themselves, ultimately turning into themselves and the “Other” within this revolving space.Most absurd is humankind never wearies of this game, standing in place and stepping across.

This conceptual textual work was displayed in the site of Yan’an University Lu Xun Art Academy, originally a Catholic church built by a Spanish missionary.The work’s appearance in this special context drove people to look into the alternation and repetition between the inside and outside as well as the moving in and moving out in the dynamical change of historical development.