About
Yibeijia Li is a London-based artist with a background in Architecture. Graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2022, she has worked for the design collective ASSEMBLE and currently teaches at BA Architecture at Central Saint Martins. In her evolving art practice, Yibeijia has collaborated with the Whitechapel Gallery, and Tokyo University of the Arts, and had work exhibited at the Lethaby Gallery this year.
Yibeijia Li’s practice aims to breathe life into lost things, whether they be lifeforms that have become extinct or ideas that have disappeared from our mental landscapes. Filling gaps in knowledge with speculation and imagined scenarios, she aims to create new mythologies in the contemporary era.
Drawing inspiration from the mountains and the rivers she grew up with in China and the familiar streets of London, from the gardens and riverbanks to the found objects, spans from space and time, Li imagines a world that seeks familiarity in the unfamiliar where reality and myth are both recognised and reimagined. In this envisioned world, objects are not as merely created but as discovered elements of an imagined realm, each narrating a fragment of a larger story.
