Li Shi

Emotion acts as Li Shi’s primary painting medium. She translates fluctuating inner psychological states into layered visual scenes, completing deep introspective dialogue through interactions between color and line.

Li analogizes herself to a fish confined in a fish tank, establishing a nested viewing relationship between creators and audiences. Her paintings record continuous emotional fluctuations. When viewing the works, audiences observe the artist’s inner world just like watching fish through glass, simultaneously recognizing the artist’s perspective and resonating with personal subconscious emotions.

All oil paintings carry traces of real-time emotional memory, incorporating fragmented personal memories, desires and cognitive biases. Her site-specific immersive creations evolve dynamically with audience feedback, generating extended artistic meanings through public participation beyond the artist’s initial intention.