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  • Yu Li
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1995 Born in Jinan, Shandong Province

2020 Graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree

Currently studies at Slade School of Art, University of London for a master’s degree

Currently works and lives in London, UK and Beijing, China

 

GROUP EXHIBITION

2022

At the Edge of SafehouseSafehouse, London, UK

The Joys and Sorrows of Human are Not InterlinkedM P Birla Millenium GalleryLondon

SYNTHESISThe TubLondon, UK

2020

Central Academy of Fine Arts Degree Show, Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, online

2019

Eclectic--Teaching and Research Exhibition of the First Studio of Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Taoxichuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen, UK

"My 2018" Excellent Works Exhibition of Sculpture Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, CAFA Channel Gallery, Beijing, UK

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Most of my work is derived from my personal history, and creating is a way for me to understand myself and reflect on my environment.

 

I like using sculpture and performance as a medium of creation. Physical experience always evokes more perception in me, and my group of performance works use a combination of domestic chores and studio scenes. One of my favorites is when I chose the dirt-covered floor of the sculpture studio, kneeling on the ground and reverently wiping out a trapezoid, which appears as a rectangle in the image due to perspective. Through the multiple dislocations of reality and camera, domesticity and pictoriality, domestic scenes and work scenes, I explore the multiple identities of women under patriarchy and capitalism Transformation. In addition to the performance works, my two sets of sculptures are based on introspection of self-regulation, and the works revolve around whether women internalize the aesthetics of secular society into their own physical pursuits and behavioral codes in a subtle way.

In the past few years, my own female identity has been the driving force behind my work, a process that has helped me open up and rebuild myself, which I consider my most fortunate privilege as an artist.

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