Li Yi Fan
Employing the forms of sculpture, painting and projection, Yi-Fan Li transformed his work into a fantastic narrative object lying fragmentary in the exhibition venue, a work bearing more than a passing resemblance to the detritus of bitter struggles. By observing these shattered remnants, the viewers may have a glimpse of the psychedelic space-time through which the artist has travelled; to wit, the emergence and disillusionment of desires.
Li formulated a meta-narrative concept by skillfully applying technological media such as projection mapping, making his work seemingly hesitate to move across the threshold of narratives and ergo mired in a state of
constinuing preparation. Such “preparation” was rife with the frolic, wrestling and torture between the artist and the media he used. It was not until either party collapses that the work rose from the decaying corpse and then the narratives unfolded quietly. In this sense, what we see in Li’s work is not simply the narrative flow but also the ambiguous dimension acquired from the entanglements between his life stories and the media he adopted. In this dimension, time stops elapsing, Mercury is in retrograde motion, and all spoken words make no sense because they are blended with one another.
EDUCATION
M.A., New Media Art, National Taiwan University of Art, 2016
B.A., Fine Art, National Normal University, 2010
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 《An Exhibition in Soulangh》/ Soulangh Cultural Park, Tainan, Taiwan
2015 《Rest in pieces》/ FreesArt space, Taipei, Taiwan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 ”Phantasmapolis – 2021 Asian Art Biennial”/ National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art,Taiwan (upcoming)
2021 ”Younger than Budda”/Double Square gallery
2020 ”Digital Art Festival,LOVE01″/Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 ”Taiwan Biennial :Sub Zoology” /National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art,Taiwan
2017 ”Next Art Tainan”/ Asir Art Museum, Tainan, Taiwan
2017 ”Rhetoric of Shame”/ Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 ”Ghost in the Box”/ YIRI ARTS Taipei space, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 ”Expanded Experimental Animation Festival III ─ Endocrine》/ MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 ”ShanHaiJing”/ YIRA ARTS Pier-2 Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2015 ”LOVE HOTEL”/ YIRA ARTS Taichung space, Taichung, Taiwan
2013 ”Data-Neurons”/ Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Residence At Soulangh Artist Village, 2017
AWARDS
Taishin Visual Art Award 2022
Next Art Tainan, 2017
S-An Cultural Foundation Awards, 2017
Digital Art Awards Taipei, 2013
S-An Cultural Foundation Awards, 2013