HONGXI LICV
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IG: @SASSYLI
EMAIL: hongxiliwork@gmail.com
Hongxi Li (b. 1996, Xiamen, China) is a London-based artist whose concept-driven practice spans sculpture, installation, performance, moving image, and photography. Her work examines how social systems, mass production hierarchy and power structures shape behaviour, emotion, and the body, with a focus on post communist and Sino-capitalist contexts. 

Li frequently draws on familiar objects and design, from furniture to architectural forms, are outcome of her research and critique of control, territory, and systems of belief. Her installations often provide spatial frameworks for performance narratives. Central to her practice is Jolene, a recurring fictional persona who appears across projects as both character and medium. Dressed in grey corporate attire, Jolene embodies an East Asian female archetype through which Li distorts social roles and explores collective pressure, aspiration, and emotional discomfort. Through subtle humour, Li’s work reveals the fragile balance between  individual agency and the structures that shape contemporary life. 



Catalogue No Project

020.2025

ANAPPOINTMNET


019.2025

BLACK HOLE LOUNGE


018.2024

JOLENE’S NEW CLOTHES


017.2024

HEAVEN GREEN


016.2024

QUANTA


015.2024

SANDCASTLE


014.2024

YES YES YES


013.2023

THE ‘NEXT’ DINER


012.2023

ONE NIGHT


011.2022

TRAVEL LIGHT


010.2022

AT WORK ON DISPLAY


009.2022

SHAPED


008.2022

DREAM RICH


007.2022

SCHOOL CHAIR


006.2021

CONSTRAINT SERISE


005.2014

BOW SERIES


004.2021

EXHAUSTION SERIES


003.2021

 UNCERTAINTY SERIES


002.2018

NEW SKY CITY


001.2014

SWEATSHOP&DREAM






021.2025_anAppointment
Moving Image



 Title: anAppointment
Year: 2025
Medium: Moving Image and Photography
Commissioned by: A Book About Looning, published    by Mogli Editions by Alexander Rash and Téa          Plume
Exhibited at: CoOc, London, UK (2026)


anAppointment was commissioned for A Book About Looning, published by Mogli Editions and edited by Alexander Rash and Téa Plume. The book explores the subculture of looning — a fascination with balloons that can range from sensory enjoyment to fetishistic attraction. Li was invited to interpret the symbolism of the balloon and what it might mean for her fictional character, Jolene.

The project consists of a series of photographs and a film documenting a live performance. In the narrative, Jolene grows a pink balloon attached to her body like a tail. The balloon functions as both a visual counterpoint to the book’s themes and a personal symbol: a manifestation of desire made visible. Carried with vulnerability and quiet embarrassment, it accompanies Jolene to a meeting with the dominatrix in collaboration with Mistress Iris.

The encounter between a fictional character and a real dominatrix unfolds as an exploration of desire, control, and exposure, revealing Jolene’s unspoken fears and longings. As the performance progresses, the boundary between character and creator begins to blur, allowing fiction, authorship, and embodied experience to bleed into one another.





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