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Suzhou / Los Angeles, 2002
Kristopher Shi’s work begins with a simple preoccupation, more or less his philosophical address: how a living person lives in the lived world. His lens does not take sides, nor does it search for causes. Instead, it lingers in the totality of this event on living. That event—neither symbolic nor didactic—becomes the ground on which his narratives unfold.
He has always assured his attention to this question, and it began during his college years in New York City, where the checkerboard streets unfolded like an axis of human flux. How people call the intersections—15th and 6th, for instance—always sent jolts through him. Back and forth in the countless treks between deep Bed-Stuy to Lower Manhattan, he found the city’s geometry as something sensed, registering the passing alterations. After moving to Los Angeles, the city, whose land is expelled from being united, sharpened his focus on the rare passer-by wrapped in vast urban surroundings. The observation was easier to carry, oftenly as he drove through his neighborhood around the nearly-abandoned Miracle Mile.
He admires Merleau-Ponty and does not believe in God, but he suspects he holds an existential belief that has yet to find its form—one that makes him slightly obscure to himself. He is also deeply shaped by post-internet culture, where a kind of sad randomness has settled into many people’s lives. He’s obsessed with looking at this great, overscaled, hyper-stimulated perceptional method we were never built to sustain.
In 2024, he founded possibly probably perhaps in Los Angeles, as a humorous extension of his inquiry into how bodies meet the world. The project began with clothing, and quickly revealed itself as a site where image-making, design, and philosophical contextualization could be reconfigured and brought into conversation.
Parallel to PPP, he maintains a personal practice that pursues the same question with fewer constraints, leaning toward photography. Alongside these, he collaborates with brands, designers, and artists, often in the role of an art director, distilling an alter-ego already latent within them, by bringing in his constant research upon the event of living.
Email: kristopherapirinxxx@gmail.com
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