Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages, but that he uses mirrors, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.
Li Wei has been expressing his art by capturing photos of his own body and images of himself to relay a message towards his audience.
In an interview with AOL News Li Wei states "When I started doing this, it was 2000, I only used photography to record the procedure of my performance art.
Some of these dangerous scenarios include shots on high buildings, lakes, ice holes and even through the windshield of a war.
In pieces such as “Li wei Falls to the Ice Hole,” his head is planted and unseen, while his body remains rigid and upright.
With this technique Li Wei is able to create an “illusory superimpositions and fusions.” Within the Chinese culture the mirror possesses a great symbolic meaning.
[8] Li Wei's art may seem humorous but they address wide range of topics from gender relations to politics.
By creating art through mirrors, Li Wei has been able to express his personal thoughts, experiences and address some social issues that occur in our daily lives.
Wei feels like the rapid growth has caused a huge change and strain on people's perceptions and emotions.
As a result, people want to break free from these limitations, an issue that hasn't been a problem for the past decades.
Li's head seems to hover, be it in the midst of a crowd of observers, in a gully between buildings, in the sky or on glittering water.
Insofar as my head is stuck in the middle of this reflection one of the important functions of contemporary art becomes evident: it is unsettling – like this performance – and questions our everyday habits of perception.
Photos show the artist with his head and chest embedded in the asphalt of a street, the roof of a ruined house or the ice of a lake with his legs pointing up to the sky.
But for him the main thing was physical exertion, the experience – be it brief – of keeping a posture up and of feeling the absurdity of the situation through his own body.