The word “spectacle” originates from the book Society of the Spectacle by French philosopher Guy Debord (1931-1994). In the book, the “spectacles” are not actual views of societies; rather, they are the reinterpreted, or even at times manipulated visual representations of such. A “spectacle”, according to Debord, is the obstruction of reality, with speculative performances which cause the majority to be controlled by some minorities. This “society of spectacle” is heavily reliant on visuals and images, and the modern society in which human interaction is replaced by the spread of such images, concealing the reality underneath.
Renowned Chinese art critic He Guiyan commented that Lv neither directly copies images from the news nor recreates them in a simple manner. On the contrary, he decodes and reorganises them, and in the process he shows his subjective views and, more importantly, isolates these visual images and recreates them into new social landscapes. In He’s views,