Yushi Li is on show as part of Dwelling, an exhibition presented by Meeting Point Projects.
Yushi Li (b. 1991, China) is a Chinese, London-based artist working primarily in photography.
Li’s work has consistently interrogated the nature of the gaze, turning the tables, or lens more aptly, from male to female-centric. The artist uses psychoanalytic theory to interrogate gaze and the act of looking as two distinct, yet difficult to extricate, phenomena. Her photographic work makes pulls from a rich archive of art historical references as she investigates these concepts. By referencing works from the (Western) canon of art history, Li analyses the way in which desire and eroticism are depicted in paintings.
Yushi Li often works with the theories the forebearers of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, to understand the gaze. Yet, she redeems their theoretical contributions by supplementing them with feminist perspectives on the discipline, as well as through her unique articulation of their foundational works. In her images, she tries to undermine the traditional and (art)historically dominant male gaze. Her work mainly engages with the question of the gaze in relation to gender, desire and sexuality, culminating in the investigation of the male representation as an erotic subject in light of digital social networks.
Yushi Li : Dwelling
16 September – 4 October 2024
an exhibition presented by Meeting Point Projects
67A York St, London
https://www.meetingpointprojects.com/
