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Bornin 1990in Wuyihan. s Lives and wor ksin Ber lin. 1990年生於武夷山；現生活並工作於柏林。
Æther marks the continuation of the artist’s reflection on personal subjectivity and its entanglement with an increasingly immersive and omnipresent online culture. The concept of leakage is an ongoing theme that threads the visuals and the script written by the artist. The work examines how one’s body, desires, and sense of self seep into and become enmeshed in highly mediated and manufactured realities. The artist wishes to focus on the affective relationships tied to the architecture of information technology and the transformation of images caused by a new division of labour. The camgirl persona has evolved into a 24/7 performative service illuminated by digital screens within this imaginary new world. Highlighting the dissolution of boundaries between work and leisure, leakage becomes an imperfect transmission between physical life and its translation into pixelated objects and virtual backdrops. Rather than being entirely subservient, the artist imagines an intervention into this dialogue between avatars and viewers, mirroring and demonstrating the tension as well as the potential of this new dynamic. Li often draws inspiration from her media studies training to create the vocabulary for her survey into the virtual versus the real, expanding the language of her research to embrace cross-disciplinary collaborations with the Berlin-based music duo LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander).
ÆTHER, 2021, Video installation, 12'30", installation dimensions variable. Commissioned by Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, courtesy of Peres Projects, Berlin, and the artist.《 ÆTHER 》，2021 年，錄像裝置， 12 分 30 秒，裝置尺寸可變。由上海外灘美術館委託創作，由柏林 Peres Projects 及藝術家提供。
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