Li Yan
"Modern people absorb information via media and so seldom experience things first hand. Truthfulness experienced is truthfulness mediated. That is, we do not pick things up directly. So one can no longer present a scene as a pure unit, it has to be presented instead in the form of news editing. One has to fetch the information from different websites, so I do that and select different images. Map and 5 Pieces, for instance, was information re-edited by me, so that satellite images were placed next to other images. With work produced in this way, the audience can make their own selections too, as there is an interaction process here. I think this is more truthful in a way, as it is based on my observations of the period’s media phenomenon."
Selected Exhibitions：
2017 China meets Europe, Museum Villa Haiss,Zell am Harmersbach,Germany
2016 17th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2016,National Art Gallery,Dhaka,Bangladesh
2016 Root Scene – Chinese Contemporary Art Group Show, China Exchange UK, London
2016 BENJAMIN SIGG COLLECTION “ART OF COLLECTING”, Poly Gallery Hong Kong,COBO HOUSE , Hong Kong
2015 All Living Creatures Scene, TAIWAN Chia Nan Museum, Tainan
2015 Individual Scene, The Art Gallery of Sichuan University
2015 Exhibition on Summer’s Threshold, Embassy of The Czech Republic in China , Beijing
2015 Reflections of Spring, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing
2013 DREAMS OF CHINA, Python Gallery, Zurich
2013 The Sixth Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu
2012 Yan Li - Li Yan: Two Sides of A Mirror, Embassy of the Czech Republic in China, Beijing
2011 Prague Action, China Czech Contemporary Museum, Beijing
2010 Emerging Artists from North, Mountain Art Beijing & Frank Lin Art Center, Beijing
2009 CHINA URBAN,Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College,Portland
2008 The Revolution Continues: New Art From China,Saatchi Gallery, London
2008 Fear,Wedel Fine Art,London
