Ironically, the most apparently digitally manipulated images may not, in fact, be photoshopped at all. Whether pictured head down, floating amidst a pile of white balloons or existing in photographs as a disembodied head, Li Wei states that his images are clever compositions using mirrors, wires, scaffolding and acrobatics that combine performance art and photography. In the ‘Dream-Like Love’ series, Li turns the bedroom into a surreal comedy as his bodiless head becomes an emasculated object dependent on the woman’s whims. In ‘041-05, 2003’, for instance, Li’s female subject threatens Li’s floating head with a massive pair of scissors. The expressions on the subjects’ faces, however, cause the viewer to treat this household spat as little more than a show and, in fact, this soap-opera theatricality is present throughout his photographic works.