Huiyi Li
Huiyi Li
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Habitat Spinning (triptych), 2020
Thread, circuit board, digital scanning, 3D modelling, photography, UV print on aluminium board
aprox 14.8 x 42 cm / 14.8 x 63 cm
Edition 1/6 + 2AP
About this work
The artist speaks to a disconnected young generation caught up in an entangled world. ‘I saw the world continue to spin when I conducted domestic work recently during quarantine, and watching my surroundings I saw spinning threads all over.’ Creating a dysfunctionality between both mediums, the artist used threads instead of wires passing them through circuit boards, so both the threads and boards can’t function normally. Her intent was to return to the classical needle work which was once an advanced technique, yet advancing it further in a new context.
About Huiyi Li
Huiyi Li is a Chinese artist and sculptor living and working in London. She recently graduated from Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2020. Her multidisciplinary work explores the entanglements of serviceability, mis-function, aggressiveness, and particularly focuses on the violent approach of medical treatments and material transformations in science fiction and myths.
Li is obsessed with the feeling of disillusionment, associated with the collapse of a make-believe truth and connected to spaces evoking a nomadic heterotopia. Inspired by the methodology of archeology, her works situate these issues in a CCTV-prevailed post-internet age and an apocalyptic reality, re-enchanting and reconsidering coincidence and fate.
Education
2014-2018 Central Academy of Fine Art, Beiping, Art History
2018-2020 Royal College of Art, London, Sculpture
Selected Exhibitions
2020 Before Rejuvenation, Coutts Art Centre, Shanghai
2020 RCAxFutureLab, West Bund Museum, Shanghai
2020 Touch Me (independent online platform)
2020 RCA2020, Royal College of Art degree show (online)
2020 Flesh, Old Operating Theatre Museum, London
2019 Global Living Room, de Pot, Shanghai
2019 A World in Vertigo, Brunel Museum, London
2019 Queuing on Stairs, Crypt Gallery, London
2018 Lucid Dreaming, Today Art Museum, Beijing