About the artist

Weiyi Li was born in Changsha City, China, in 1987. She received a BA from theCollege of Architecture & Urban Planning, Tongji University (2009), an MFA from YaleCollege of Art (2012), and a doctorate from the Royal College of Art (2023). Much of herwork has been influenced by her decades-long career as a designer and image-maker. She has reflected on the brutalities of the image industry, the efficiencies and delays ofimage-mediated communication and the question of how we, as creators, can continue to create in a world dominated by increasingly similar digital image tools and fabrications.

As she creates art and receives feedback from audiences, she recognises that art may be the only means by which we can all be united as human beings, for it may be the only place in the world where the power of what is not affirmed and what is misunderstood is still acknowledged. In today’s world, misunderstanding, rather than complete understanding, maybe what brings people from different cultures together to create new things.

李维伊于 1987 年出生，先后在同济大学建筑学院(BA)、耶鲁大学艺术学院(MFA)和皇家艺术学院(Ph.D)完成了一系列与设计相关的项目与研究。她的许多作品都来源于对数十年的设计师和图像制造者生涯的反思，例如图像制造产业中的种种残酷，以图像为媒介的沟通中的效率与延迟，以及这样一个问题：在一个被愈发相似的数码图像工具和建造工具统治下的世界里，作为创造者的我们还如何去创作？在创作和接受来自观众的反馈的过程中，她反复确认了这一点：艺术可能是唯一现存的、将我们所有人类关联起来的机会。因为这是世界上还承认「不被肯定的事物」甚至是「错误理解的事物」的力量的地方，而在此刻的世界里，很可能是「误解」而不是「全然的理 解」能够让有着不同文化背景的人走到一起，并且创作出新的事物。