PROFILE
李静文・LIJINGWEN・リセイブン
Born in 1994.
Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.
Living and working in Tokyo, Japan.
celiamo1994@gmail.com
SUMMARY
Li Jingwen’s work appears in the form of installation, including elements of videos, performances and objects. The body of work draws from an individual's relationship to his or her personal experience in the present. Li's current practice predicates on knowledge that is gained from participation and personal history.
The project often begins with a survey prepared beforehand. Instead of confront her subjects directly, the artist sometimes invites various participants via the internet. Imageries along with themes and narratives are generated from the artist's dialogue with the subject with no pretenses. Participants of the project would often make small sketches in response to the artist's survey. Through amounting large quantity of information from her surveys, Li pieces together an identity using ready made materials in an objective fashion. The audience are invited to directly observe these anonymous information displayed within the installation, discovering various thoughts contained within.
As the artist conducts each project, Li sometimes discovers unfamiliar points of view that spikes her interest. By spending weeks with her subject, the artist then selects elements of the subject's life and transform these moments into objects and film.
EDUCATION
2015 Apr. - 2019 Mar. BFA, Sculpture, College of Art and Design, Musashino Art University
2019 Apr.- Now MFA(pending), Graduate School of Art and Design, Musashino Art University
EXHIBITION
2019 Aug.- Sep. [KANAZAWA sculpture festival]
2019 July. [GOOD Art Festival]
2019 May. [NIHONGODEWANAI]
2019 Apr.- May. [Independent Tokyo]
2019 Jan. [How to breath in water surface]
2018 Sep. [LI's Illustration exhibition]
2017 Nov. [MUSABI ART SITE ２０１７] (participate as a curator)
2016 Nov.- Dec. [Up-ground Art]
2016 Apr. [Suspicion]