Chuqiao (Chloe) Li
Bio: Chuqiao (Chloe) Li (b. 1998, Beijing, China) is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily with paper, artist’s books and printmaking. Her work explores the chronic uneasiness beneath the social political conditions in contemporary China. In 2024, she was featured in CURRENTS biennial at A.I.R. Gallery.
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Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Our generation was born and left on a blurry square.
On that square, things have been written, erased, rewritten, re-erased, re-rewritten, re-re-erased… Like an answer sheet from a bad student.
I am standing on that square, floating be- neath the square, wandering around the square. I am looking at the square, looking at the people looking at the square, look- ing at the people not looking at the square.
In contemporary China, there is a collective chronic pain hidden in an unknown part of the heart. It has been hurting for a long time. Long enough for you to get used to it. So used to it that you are not even sure if it exists. My job is to touch it with a needle, like acupuncture. ...
“Acupuncture involves the insertion of very thin needles through your skin at strategic points on your body. ”
– Mayo Clinic
“Acupuncture is a pseudoscience; the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientific knowledge, and it has been characterized as quackery. “
– Wikipedia
“You don’t know that it exists until you’re touched. You don’t know that part of you could be touched until you’re touched.”
– A random influencer after getting his first acupuncture
Chuqiao (Chloe) Li
In the Spring Breeze, 2024
Photo-transfer on vellum, fans, fishing wire, and flashlights
Courtesy of the artist
First Year Exhibition
Chuqiao (Chloe) Li
The Weight of the Flags, 2023
Screenprint on organz, weight, inkjet print on paper
50" x 32" x 16"
Courtesy the artist
