Dangling horizontally out of a skyscraper, this hovering figure looks set to fall to his doom.

But this 'jumper' hasn't just lost it all on a game of chance - this is performance art with a difference.

Chinese artist Li Wei has produced an unsettling series of self-portraits involving his face reflected in mirrors in public places, and photographs of himself crashing into walls and sidewalks.

His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality.

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