Shelter_of_chaos.zip—Yi-Fan LI solo exhibition

Employing the forms of sculpture, painting and projection, Yi-Fan Li transformed his work into a fantastic narrative object lying fragmentary in the exhibition venue, a work bearing more than a passing resemblance to the detritus of bitter struggles. By observing these shattered remnants, the viewers may have a glimpse of the psychedelic space-time through which the artist has travelled; to wit, the emergence and disillusionment of desires.

Li formulated a meta-narrative concept by skillfully applying technological media such as projection mapping, making his work seemingly hesitate to move across the threshold of narratives and ergo mired in a state of constinuing preparation. Such “preparation” was rife with the frolic, wrestling and torture between the artist and the media he used. It was not until either party collapses that the work rose from the decaying corpse and then the narratives unfolded quietly. In this sense, what we see in Li’s work is not simply the narrative flow but also the ambiguous dimension acquired from the entanglements between his life stories and the media he adopted. In this dimension, time stops elapsing, Mercury is in retrograde motion, and all spoken words make no sense because they are blended with one another.

EDUCATION

2015 M.A., New Media Art, National Taiwan University of Art

2011 B.A., Fine Art, National Normal University

AWARDS

2016 Next Art Tainan

2016 S-An Cultural Foundation Awards

2013 Digital Art Awards Taipei

2013 S-An Cultural Foundation Awards

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 《An Exhibition in Soulangh》, Soulangh Cultural Park, Tainan, Taiwan

2015 《Rest in pieces》, FreesArt space, Taipei, Taiwan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 《Next Art Tainan》, Asir Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan

2017 《Rhetoric of Shame》, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2016 《Ghost in the Box》, YIRI ARTS Taipei space, Taipei, Taiwan

2016 《Expanded Experimental Animation Festival III ─ Endocrine》, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2015 《ShanHaiJing》, YIRA ARTS Pier-2 Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2015 《LOVE HOTEL》, YIRA ARTS Taichung space, Taichung, Taiwan

2013 《Data-Neurons》, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2017 Residence At Soulangh Artist Village