WANYU LI
TAIL
2022
Performance
This work is a performance art theatre work, the whole work relies on the installation to complete; the main installation is the collection of residents' old clothes to make the totem pole.
PRAY
2022
Installation & Photography
The praying mantis, also known as the "praying bug," raises its front feet in prayer, just as my poems in this piece are all prayers and wishes. I borrowed the image of the praying mantis to create a concrete poem in acrylic and used light and shadow to reflect their full image on the wall. The main body is the head of the praying mantis, and two palms facing each other.
Swing
2021
Video art
I photographed some of the surroundings in my neighbourhood and put together a series of photographs I had taken in Japan when I lived there. I found that the two environments were so different, but I didn't seem to change much. I couldn’t see the effect of the environment on me.
3
2021
Installation/Video
A8 Residence Project
3 is a number that can describe many wonderful relationships in the world: spatially, sky-earth-human, temporally, past-present-future.In this project, I observed the dance theatre Red Blood Cells and documented it in my way. I was able to observe its rehearsal period, the present moment of the performance and the recording of it for permanent preservation, and such three relationships in time are well worth exploring.
I made three clay triangles and projected the video on this installation. Triangles are stable but restricted. With the mirror, the light and the shadow are extended but never escape from those regular triangles.
Like us, we are relatively free but never get away with relationships in the world.
LEFTOVER
cooperated with Ke Lv
2021
Video, 2 min
I used 3 separate screens to combine shadows of objects and hands.
Peter Pan's Last Day
2021
Video Installation
We can never have real knowledge. We are goldfishes who live in the fish bowl and observe the world through the glass. Our knowledge is distorted.
This installation showed the distorted world through the eyes of a child. And I used multiple kinds of clothes to mix the reality and the fiction world together. I wanted to create an ambiguous feeling about the environment we live in.
The Black Giant
2020
Stop-motion Animation, Japanese, 8min
It's a short film about death and how people face death. The claw machine in this film, which is very common in game centres, is a symbol of the struggle to live.
The Return of Persephone
2019
Short Film, Narrative, Japanese, 13min
In the myth, Persephone's mother, Demeter, finally got her daughter back from Hades. With Persephone's return, spring comes every year.
But in my story, this daughter doesn't return to her mother with spring but with death...
OEDIPUS
2018
Experimental film,13min
The short film OEDIPUS tells a story about the heroine's dream and the fear of reflection in reality.