This article is from WeChat official account:Sandwich (ID: china30s), author:Yi Man, editor: Li Zixin, the title picture was taken by the author
Whenever I see Luo Fuxing, he is always in black. Black shirt, narrow-leg pants, black leather shoes with a high heel of about 3 cm, and a coat if the weather is cold.
Drifting around in the past ten years, “Killing the Lord of Matter” Luo Fuxing has become accustomed to dressing lightly. Almost all his belongings can be packed in two ordinary shoulder canvas bags. Inside, there are only black clothes and underwear socks for outer wear, and there are almost no other non-essential items. The daily necessities that can be purchased locally are all purchased locally and never taken to the next place.
A person has lived outside for many years, and there is always a lot of baggage. Luo Fuxing randomly stores his belongings at 7 or 8 friends’ houses, in Shipai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, and his friends also help him when they move. Never urge him to take it away. It is probably useless to know that reminders.
“I lost my luggage wherever I went, and found it when I needed it. It was too heavy and too burdensome. Too many things and too much burden.” A practical gypsy life.
During the Gallery Week in Beijing at the end of April and early May, Luo Fuxing opened the Shamat Hair Salon into an art space called C5cmn in Beijing 798.
If you purchase a full-price gallery pass for 439 yuan, you can visit 37 galleries and art institutions including UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Mumu Art Museum, and Intermediate Art Museum, and visit the recently watched ” Cao Fei: Time Stage”, “Sakamoto Ryuichi: Guanyin·Listening Time” and other exhibitions. But if you spend 30 yuan, you can experience the one-time coloring in the Shamat Hair Salon, you can cut your hair for 100 yuan, and you can enjoy the Shamat styling design and experience by Luo Fuxing himself for 300 yuan.
According to the “official” statement, this project of “Luo Fuxing gives you the style of killing Matt” is called “Exhibition Addiction: Killing Matt Hair Salon | Ye Funa + Luo Fuxing Project”, which belongs to the space independent planning activity during the Gallery Week in Beijing . The co-founder Ye Funa is an artist currently teaching in the Experimental Art Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Come to Gallery Week Beijing to open this killing horseSpecial hair salons, no matter how they are considered to be interesting and profitable business.
Luo Fuxing takes 70% of the consumption of all guests during the project, no site fee is required, and only the hairdressing tools are provided. In addition, there is a shop decoration fund of 2,000 yuan, which can be decorated by Luo Fuxing. He bought a high-saturation green cloth as the background, sprayed the five words “Kill Matt Hair Salon” with red paint, and shaded it with black, and painted the same red flame underneath. Ye Funa teased him on Weibo, “As soon as I’m not here, Mr. Luo will…can you be full of Yang Jian’s art?”
“Hair is also an expression.” Luo Fuxing wrote on the other wall with a black marker. At an art exhibition in Shenzhen a few years ago, Luo Fuxing also restored a Shamat hair salon, but they didn’t let him cut his hair and do styling in it.
Someone unceremoniously left a message in the Luo Fuxing public account, “For what? What do you want to convey? The killing of Matt is long gone. It is just a documentary that allows people to understand the past of the killing of Matt. But the facts are. It proves that the joint urging of history and society has left the people who killed Matt nowhere to be marginalized by society. What about a plan to kill Matt?”
Luo Fuxing replied, not to convey anything, but just a commercial hairstyling experience shop.
He didn’t even forward the official propaganda. The introduction to him above was: Luo Fuxing, male, from Meizhou, Guangdong, founder of Killing Matt, and artist in the Pearl River Delta.
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Luo Fuxing and I have an appointment on April 30th for the Shamat modeling experience. He originally suggested that I change it to May 1st. The 30th is a working day. I am the only one to make an appointment. He has to come here specifically. Although he lives in C5cnm’s studio at 751, a 5-minute walk.
The C5cmn space is in the small road on the side of the main road in the park that is easy for tourists to get lost. Couriers and delivery staff are also easy to get lost in the intricate paths of the art park. The road names and house numbers are not clear. The names of all kinds of spaces are varied. The fonts are either too large or too small or too freehand to identify, and it makes people dizzy. The dazzling visual display makes it hard not to give birth to a sense of suspension and ex-location. Tourists, couriers, and takeaways stopped in the middle of the road, called, and looked up confusedly.
I asked Luo Fuxing for the earliest time, and he told me at 11 o’clock. “In the wind and the rain, the hair salon is waiting for you.” On April 30, I took a taxi from my place of residence to 798, and I was sorry to tell him that I was going to be 10 minutes late, but Luo Fuxing did not expect to reply quickly. He just got up and ordered outside.Selling breakfast hasn’t arrived yet. He joked that he hoped I would be half an hour late. So I wandered around, waiting for the stylist to come.
Next to the C5cnm space is an art store called “Xinghui Chaowan”. Seven or eight blind boxes of different brands occupy the most conspicuous sales position. During the 10 days in Beijing, Luo Fuxing never entered this “Fortune Fair”, which is separated from the temporary killer Matt hair salon. He learned that the cheapest blind box in the store costs 69 yuan, which he thinks is a bit expensive. . But he understands that “commercialization can make money.”
The process of sculpting Kill Matt is also like opening a blind box, but it is four times more expensive than the physical blind box next door. Before the modeling was completed, neither the guest nor Luo Fuxing knew what the final result was. Depending on the length of the hair, each styling takes 30 to 60 minutes, Luo Fuxing does it entirely by feeling.
“What are you going to do for me?”
“If you don’t know, just mess with XX.”
The guest didn’t hear clearly, so what’s wrong?
“Making a fool.”
Luo Fuxing put away the word “disharmony”, stopped talking, and continued to do it.
The entrance to the C5cnm space is on the left side. It is very small and only one person wide. Thinner people can go in and out directly. If you get fatter, you have to lean on your side or suck your abdomen. On the right side is a large floor-to-ceiling glass, which is actually a door that can be opened. Luo Fuxing will tease and complain about the door being too small. The customer said, otherwise I will open this glass for you.
As long as the hair salon is open for business, as long as someone is doing styling, there will always be people looking at the narrow-door probe or retracting in the C5cnm, wondering what is going on here. If they make up their minds to dig out some curious “magic material” from Luo Fuxing, they are doomed to fail. He is good at using a Luo Fuxing-style response to dispel most of the meaning of asking why.
“What are you doing here?”
“I work here.”
“Do you use this as the theme?”
“Almost, I don’t know.”
“Then what do you do?”
“I am doing hair here, you can also do hair, what do you want to do after doing your hair.”
“How do I charge?”
“The price list is over there.”
He has given up self-explanation long ago.
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But it may be easier to explain to tourists than to family members.
In the early years, Luo Fuxing tried to explain to his family what killing Matt was and why he was doing this. “Later, I found out that I was a silly X. Explain Mao.” No one in the family can accept that Luo Fuxing’s killing of Matt is the trend and fashion he tried to make them understand, or what kind of meaning it has.
What do outsiders think about killing Matt, and what they think about Luo Fuxing. My uncle still talks to Luo Fuxing about a piece of news that is not true or false, saying that someone had got the same hair as Luo Fuxing and scared an old grandmother to death. Uncle will especially emphasize that real people are real things.
So his activity never blocks his family, or anyone. “I don’t have anything shameful, only me blocking others, advertising, complaining, showing affection, nothing nutritious, blocking it.”
Damn it. Luo Fuxing would always add this sentence at the end of a sentence to show his disdain. He gave up explaining to anyone, and he didn’t feel the need to explain himself.
The family hoped that Luo Fuxing would buy them a commercial house worth 700,000 to 800,000 yuan in the county seat and live in the community. Another option is to build your own house in the village, which costs four to five million yuan. Sometimes Luo Fuxing feels that he can have the goal of buying a house, but most of the time he still feels that it is unnecessary. Even if he really buys a house, he will buy it for his family. It is not for himself, and he has little motivation. He got used to shaking around, knowing he was unlikely to settle down in one place. Not at least at the age of 25.
But last month, Luo Fuxing almost settled down.
At that time, he was helping a friend to manage a hair salon called “Clover”, and at the same time looking for a facade where he could develop the salon by himself. Just before the store had been found and almost signed a contract to open, a group of friends asked Luo Fuxing for a drink, and brainwashed him the idea of the development gallery. “I’m so fucking damned by them that I don’t want to do it, and I feel quite stupid. I am ashamed by them, and I feel even more ashamed when I think about it.”
The thing that friends think Luo Fuxing’s own development gallery is stupid is that he now spends 10,000 yuan a month for fooling around, and it’s estimated to be 10,000 yuan a month after opening a store. But oneYou have to stay there when you open a store, it’s not necessary. “Later, I thought about it as if I was, was I crazy, was I crazy about money or something? How come there is a (self-development gallery)What about this kind of thinking?” Luo Fuxing also realized that with his undisciplined temperament, it was uncomfortable to be trapped when opening a store, and the store would definitely collapse.
Luo Fuxing decided not to open his own shop, and then “mixed”, he could pick up projects everywhere, such as coming to Beijing to open this 10-day Killing Matt hair salon, or when to go to have a Killing Matt party. He also quickly forgiven his “idiot”. A person who drifts for a long time will want a base area very much, “I am a person without a base area.”
Luo Fuxing, who is only 25 years old, feels that he is different from his peers. He has an old mentality and a feeling that his life is going backwards. He hasn’t entered the disco in seven or eight years and feels noisy. He usually goes to coffee shops and drinks tea. Drink less wine.
I asked him when he started to feel this way. “Now. It is not necessary to investigate the specific time. I will treat it as now. I think life should be very happy, jumping and laughing, just like hair. I am in the wrong state. I especially envy them. Go here. Di, what are you doing there.”
But after turning around, he said again that Luo Fuxing is a very casual person, he wears and eats casually, and everything is casual.
Luo Fuxing’s last emotional excitement can probably be traced back to the winter of 2019. At that time, he was with a girl in Chongqing, and he randomly found a bodhisattva’s scripture from the Internet, and he changed it himself. The first sentence was “the big stage of the cow, ghost, snake and god” to express his belief that all kinds of cows, ghosts and snakes can be messed up outside. The outrage that comes. The girl helped Luo Fuxing to engrave this scripture on his back, full of back, tattoos from the afternoon to the evening. The house in Chongqing in winter was also deadly cold, and it was painful for three or four days. At that time, the girl owed hundreds of thousands of debts, and life was not going well. Luo Fuxing helped her pay off the debts, although he didn’t help much. Later they separated.
That was Luo Fuxing’s most recent tattoo, and it was also his most recent “radical thinking”. “You are more peaceful when you meet me now. Recently, I have been very peaceful. Since then, I have been very peaceful. The whole person is very peaceful.”
This is probably the reason why Luo Fuxing never left 798 during the 10 days in Beijing. No matter how many people make an appointment, the Shamat Hair Salon will close the shop on time at eight o’clock in the evening. After finishing work, Luo Fuxing returned to the accommodation provided by C5cnm space, took a bath, had a drink, played chess online, and went to bed. “I want to have my own time, I can do whatever I want, this is the time after 8 o’clockTime, no one can grab my time, time and money can’t buy it. “In the past few days in Beijing, I also had a friend about Luo Fuxing for dinner. He checked the distance of more than 30 kilometers and found it to be too far. “I felt tired every day, so I didn’t go. It’s not because I had a hairstyle for a day, I was tired, and I didn’t know what I was carrying. “
Luo Fuxing fiddled with my hair for a while, and made the first suggestion: to stand up the hair first.
I agree. In fact, I have no choice other than disagree. The core point of killing Matt’s hairstyle is that the hair should stand up against gravity, explode, and swell to a volume much larger than the original shape.
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Before I came to find Luo Fuxing for the styling of Killing Matt, I did not give special expectations for this “Journey of Killing Matt”, such as what I could chat about or write something different. There are too many labels and too many symbols on his body, which carry the imagination and construction of others to a considerable extent. It is difficult to judge to what extent these imaginations and constructions are in line with him.
My idea is very simple. First of all, I am a guest to experience what it’s like to wear Matt’s style. If I were to try to imagine what it would be like for those “family members” who once wandered in the stone pai. A sense and experience based on the body cannot be obtained through speech and retelling. That’s just second-hand knowledge. We already have too much second-hand or even three-handed, four-handed, five-handed knowledge.
But I was worried that I would not be able to styling Matt, because I had short hair and had just finished the perm just two weeks before the appointment, and the barber warned me that my hair was seriously damaged. I’m not sure if they can really stand up and withstand the toss.
I worry too much.
The way to make hair stand up and swell is very simple, comb a small strand, grab it upwards, then spray it with hairspray from the root to the tip of the hair, then use a hair dryer to heat it to make the hairspray harden quickly. This is the first step. Then grab the end of the hair that has the momentum to stand up, and use a small-toothed comb against the direction of the hair to scrape vigorously from top to bottom in a small amount to shave the smooth hair into a rough mess. In this way, a strand of hair can be successfully erected, and the hair piece changes from a triangle with 10 degrees at the top to a triangle with 30 degrees at the top.
Repeat this many times, and you will get a luxuriant 30-degree acute triangle at the top.
But the styling does not stop there. Before finishing that moment, Luo Fuxing and I also didn’t know the direction that each strand of hair was going to go next. He fiddled with his hair for a while and looked at the mirrorLooks like, decided to divide the hair in the respective directions according to the hair seam on the top of my head originally to the left. It’s just that the hair that was originally close to the scalp now has an independent “hair” pattern and is flying. This process is easy to produce dense bursts of happiness. Watching every strand of hair from standing up to tending in unpredictable directions, each combing provides a new possibility for development. I couldn’t help laughing.
“This hairstyle suits you pretty well. But what are you laughing about…It makes people feel like…” Luo Fuxing laughed while talking, paused, and said, “Hypocritical…”
“How can I be hypocritical…Isn’t I laughing wildly because I am happy?” I argued for reasons.
“I think he laughs wildly only when one thing is out of control. I’ve never laughed wildly, I can’t laugh because the flesh on both sides is so tight when I laugh, it hurts and hurts, you know. I think laughing wildly is a kind of talent, and people with a very cheerful personality will laugh wildly.”
I only noticed that when Luo Fuxing smiled, his mouth was just grinning, and there was no sound. The corners of his mouth squeezed out five or six folds on both sides of his thin cheeks. This discovery surprised me. I told Luo Fuxing that his judgment of me “carelessly” was different from that of most people. In most cases, I would get a quiet and gentle evaluation.
“That’s why I am called Wen Jing and I will tell you. You can laugh or not, and you can answer or not answer.”
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Finally, my hair was blown into a slanted fan shape by Luo Fuxing. The largest area was sprayed with a pink heart shape, and a green stroke was added on the outside. “Spray a love heart, low a little, don’t want to do it if you don’t want to be low. What is advanced? I think about it, gallery advanced? Also low. If love is just a love, then low, how can it be given meaning? So low, right.” He stared at his work for a while, then chose a purple-gray paint and sprayed it on the fan-shaped tail.
Half an afternoon, waves of curious people came in the store. A seemingly older painter walked in, looked up and down with a smile, and asked questions in a friendly and gentle manner. The painter said that he was talking about things at the nearby Daqian Gallery. He only saw the promotion of Killing Matt’s hair salon the day before. It was the first time he heard about “Killing Matt”, so he came to have a look today. “When people are old, they like these, weird things.”
The painter kept his bald head, and Luo Fuxing suggested that if the painter’s goatee should be sculpted, it would be considered hair on his head. The painter waved his hand. “Our age is where our hearts are, but people can’tHere, we don’t even eat pigs what we ate when we were young. Young people can’t imagine that era, saying that it’s not good now, but it was not good at that time. It’s never been better! Let’s go, young people do well! “
After a while, the painter came back with a SLR camera to take pictures of Luo Fuxing. Not long after walking, when the painter walked through the glass door outside the gallery, he knocked on the glass and greeted Luo Fuxing with a smile.
A girl who is studying in the preparatory course and is about to go abroad to study art. She has long straight hair that is waist-length. She said that she had only watched a documentary not long ago and was doing research and works on the theme of killing Matt recently. The girl praised Luo Fuxing for being handsome, the photos on the Internet are handsome, and the reality is more handsome. Luo Fuxing blows the girl’s hair into two symmetrical towering “hair boards” while grinning silently, expressing happiness. The girl was very polite, “I didn’t expect you to come to Beijing. It’s a coincidence that I can come to see you.”
There are also two self-media girls who escaped from work in Wangjing’s office, and decided to take advantage of the busy space on the last working day before the holiday to make an explosive look, make a vlog, and just return to the office to show off . They saw the sharing on Xiaohongshu that morning that someone in 798 was doing a killer look, and after searching a lot of platforms to find the address of the hair salon, they didn’t know who Luo Fuxing was before.
“Do you want to sign our company?” they asked Luo Fuxing. Towards the end of the styling, the girls received the news that they would leave work early this last working day. Fortunately, they had time to return to the company half an hour before get off work.
Most of the guests are curious to experience, there is no shortage of Internet celebrities, and the styling fee of 300 yuan is nothing. But there were some students who seemed to have little money to come, which made Luo Fuxing feel “like killing them.”
A boy told him that he was working in a factory near Beijing, while working while studying and studying anthropology. Luo Fuxing is not the first time to come to Beijing, he feels that Beijingers should be very rich. “Maybe I got it wrong. I feel so sad to hear this. I work and study. Isn’t this a situation that only happened 10 years ago and 15 years ago, and it still has a damn today.” He went to search the suburbs of Beijing. The price of a part-time job in a factory is only three or four thousand a month, which is about the same as Shenzhen, Guangdong, and the requirements are even higher.
Most of the time, Luo Fuxing would not take the initiative to find out who the styling guests are, what they are doing, where they came from, and why. He didn’t need to speak, as the guests would fall out of their heads as soon as they sat there.
“I will meet a lot of people quickly, but I will forget them soon.”
By 3 pm, 2 guests who made an appointment on the last working day before the May Day holiday, and 1 guest who arrived temporarilyAll services have been completed. Standing for a few hours, chatting and styling without interruption, is enough to consume energy. Luo Fuxing leaned against the window wearily, the table top of the cushion was a stone-patterned cushion, pretending it was a marble floor-to-ceiling window sill. “I really can’t imagine how the people in the stone pai do to kill Matt, it only costs 50 yuan at a time.” Luo Fuxing frowned.
He no longer needs to spend 50 yuan to kill Matt for people. Now, most of the people who kill Matt are not “family members.” Regardless of whether he agrees with it or not, his external identity has gradually become an “artist”.
If there is any inconvenience after finishing the Kill Matt hairstyle, it is that the huge crown will be directly shot on the door frame or wall when the body enters and exits the space entrance. Hair with heavy hairspray is strong and elastic, which forms some small and unignorable obstacles to walking. In a short period of time, it is difficult for you to quickly get used to the changes in the space occupied by your body. Although it is a little troublesome to kill Matt’s hairstyle, it does not make people uncomfortable, but gives birth to a special sense of freedom. Especially when there are several people with the same hairstyle in a space at the same time. I seem to understand that because of my hairstyle, I can recognize the same feelings of each other. I want to take pictures with them and go wandering on the road. My hair might say something for me that I don’t usually show up easily.
But that night I was going to be a “social man” again.
After leaving the Shamat hair salon, I had to find a barber shop nearby to wash off the spray and gel from my hair. There is a “illusion barbershop” across the road in the 798 Park. The owner is very talkative and guided me to lie down with experience, telling me that if I spray too much hair gel and have to wash it myself, I must apply enough conditioner first. , To soften the hair to wash.
Illusion Barbershop opened on Jiuxianqiao Road in 1989. The boss said that after 798 was built, models and actors with thick hairspray were often used in the shop to wash their hair. He has learned from experience.
The experience journey of killing Matt’s hairstyle ended in the hallucination barber shop.
On the left is the C5cnm space, on the far left is the narrow entrance door, and on the right is the art shop
“Hair is also an expression”
Luo Fuxing
Illusory Barbershop
This article is from WeChat official account:Sandwich (ID: china30s), Author: Yiman