Mevlana Lipp 梅夫拉纳·利普, Needle 针, 2025

At the center of Mevlana Lipp's work "Needle" (2025), a stiletto emerges as the dominant element, surrounded by blossoms. In places, it slices through delicate petals, its blade seemingly infused with an inner glow—a bluish luminescence that lends it an almost otherworldly presence. The weapon itself bears floral elements, as if it were not merely an instrument of violence but an organic extension of the plant world. It both cuts and pierces the flowers, yet at the same time, they appear drawn to it, like moths irresistibly attracted to light.

The work explores polarity—danger and beauty, attraction and violence. Encircling the central composition, a series of pearls form an ornamental frame. These pearls symbolize both purity and sexuality, their very nature embodying transformation: born from the irritation of a sharp grain of sand, a foreign and potentially harmful intrusion, they are transmuted within the shell into objects of luminous perfection.

The entire piece revolves around these opposing forces, which, rather than canceling each other out, remain simultaneously present, shaping and defining one another in their tension.

Mevlana Lipp (b. 1989 Cologne, Germany) lives and works in Cologne, Germany. His solo exhibitions include Vista (2024, Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy); Haptic Memory (2022, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China); Pacific (2021, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium); Fluidum (2020, Andersen's Contemporary: The Other's Space, Copenhagen, Denmark). He has participated in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany (2024); PM/AM Gallery, London, UK (2022); The Hole, Los Angeles, USA (2022); Workplace Gallery, London, UK (2021) and Tick Tack Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2020), among others.

《针》（2025）画面的主导是一把匕首，四周围绕著花朵。刀锋刺破娇柔的花瓣，由内而外散发出幽幽蓝光，彷彿脱俗的异界造物。武器本身亦饰有花卉元素，仿佛它不仅仅是一个暴力工具，更是植物世界天然孕育出的有机物。尽管刀刃刺破花瓣，花朵却不由地被它吸引，如飞蛾扑火。

作品探讨了对立性——危险与美丽、吸引与暴力。一串珍珠环绕中央，它们是纯洁与性的象徵，同时，本身即是嬗变的产物：侵入贝壳内部的粗砺的砂石变为光彩夺目的完美之物。整件作品充斥著对立的力量，在冲突共存的拉锯中彼此塑造。

梅夫拉纳·利普1989年出生于德国科隆，现工作生活于德国科隆。利普的个展包括"触觉记忆"（2022，胶囊上海，中国上海），“Pacific”（2021, Plus One Gallery，比利时安特卫普）和“Fluidum”（2020, Andersen's Contemporary: The Other's Space，丹麦哥本哈根）。群展机构包括PM/AM Gallery，英国伦敦（2022）；The Hole，美国洛杉矶（2022）；Workplace Gallery，英国伦敦（2021）和Tick Tack Gallery，比利时安特卫普（2020）等。