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Tabby Li

Discipline:

Multidisciplinary Artist

Location:

London

ABOUT:

My work engages with the body as an encounter. It is neither specific nor referential but an ecology of objects and ideas configured as a whole—where relationships form an internal logic and a sense of identity in their own right, and where components merge and function as part of a system.

I draw upon my mixed-race Chinese-Irish heritage to investigate the complexities and potentials of connection and transmission in marginal spaces. I aim to explore alternative perspectives through the conditions of objects, examining their ability to exist beyond the demands of function or static banality.

The relationships that emerge offer openings and exchanges both between and within the creative act. My goal is to uncover networks of information within the work that explore, connect, and expand through the potentials of the everyday—questioning operative presumption, the ephemeral body, the overlooked, the discarded, and the uncanny.

WORKS:

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