Yushi Li
Yushi Li (born 1991) is a Chinese-born, London-based photographer whose work is concerned with the male gaze and the female gaze.
Yushi Li
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- Yushi Li was born on 1 January 1991.
- Occupation
- photographer
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Yushi Li (born 1991) is a Chinese-born, London-based photographer whose work is concerned with the male gaze and the female gaze.
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Life and work
Life and work
Li was born in Hunan province, China and now lives in London. She earned an MA in photography at the Royal College of Art in London and was, as of 2019, studying for a PhD in Arts and Humanities there. Her photography, through series such as Your Reservation is Confirmed, My Tinder Boys, and Paintings, Dreams and Love, is concerned with the male gaze and the female gaze. "Her work has typically featured naked, white and Western men, shown as acquiescent or vulnerable, while she is clothed and assertive, meeting the viewer’s gaze."
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• Your Reservation is Confirmed, Fotogalleri Vasli Souza, Malmo, Sweden, 2019 • Women Act, Men Appear, Union Gallery, London, 2020/21
Group exhibitions
Group exhibitions
• 209 Women, Portcullis House, Parliament of the United Kingdom, London, 2018/2019; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 2019
Publications with contributions by Li
• 209 Women. Liverpool: Bluecoat, 2019..
Primary material
Documents and archives
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 129470910, Yushi, Li.
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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- “Yushi Li”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q109967758: Yushi Li
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- 1.Exploring the economy of exposure in the work of Yushi Li - 1854 Photography. British Journal of Photography.
- 2.Yushi Li's photographs 'provoke' the male/female binary. Creative Boom. 12 April 2021.
- 3.Photographers in Focus: Yushi Li. www.nowness.com.
- 4.A naked man in a bath with two octopuses: Yushi Li's best photograph. the Guardian. 15 December 2021.
- 5.Irwin, Charlotte. Yushi Li - Women in Photography. Hundred Heroines. 12 February 2020.
- 6.Your Reservation Is Confirmed. phmuseum.com.
- 7.Jansen, Charlotte. Why This Chinese Photographer Takes Pictures of Naked Western Men. Elephant. 9 February 2021.
- 8.Juxtapoz Magazine - Yushi Li Turns the Female Gaze onto White Men on Tinder. www.juxtapoz.com.
- 9.Irwin, Charlotte. exploring sex, dating and digital intimacy through art. I-D. 12 April 2019.
- 10.Yushi Li on photographing men she met through Tinder. www.itsnicethat.com.
- 11.Paintings, Dreams and Love. phmuseum.com.
- 12.Stone, Mee-Lai. Drag queens to cloud surfers: highlights from Photo London 2021 – in pictures. The Guardian. 8 September 2021. 0261-3077.
- 13.Your Reservation Is Confirmed. vaslisouza.com.
- 14.Yushi Li: Women Act, Men Appear, Union Gallery, exhibition review: 'Nude men and naked female desire'. hackneycitizen.co.uk. 7 December 2020.
- 15.Photographers. 209 Women.
- 16.Open Eye Gallery – 209 Women. Open Eye Gallery.
- 17.Delmage, Lara. Yushi Li / The objectified other. Metal. 2019.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 129470910, Yushi, Li.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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