HONGXI LICV
IG: @SASSYLI
EMAIL:
hongxiliwork@gmail.comHongxi 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.
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BLACK HOLE LOUNGE
YES YES YES
THE ‘NEXT’ DINER
BOW SERIES
NEW SKY CITY
Hongxi LiEN / 中
Hongxi Li (b. 1996, Xiamen, China) is a London-based artist whose concept-driven practice examines how social systems shape behaviour, emotion, and the body within post-communist and Sino-capitalist contexts. Drawing on familiar objects from furniture to architecture, she creates installations that frame performance narratives. Central to her work is Jolene, a recurring fictional character through whom Li explores social roles, aspiration, and emotional tension. Through subtle humour, Li’s work reveals the fragile balance between individual agency and the structures that shape contemporary life.
Eamil: hongxiliwork@gmail.com
IG:@SASSYLI